Northward: Peary’s 1908-09 Expedition

A wonderful improvement

  • 12-11-1908 – Evening
  • Robert E. Peary
  • Cape Sheridan, Ellesmere Island, CAN
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Modelled [sic] + froze 2 doe + 3 fawn heads in the snow entrance to my rear door.
    Charlie had the women scrub walls + floor of the starboard messroom + passage. A wonderful improvement.
    Marvin returned about 6.-P.M. reporting much open water.
    Ahlettahh + Kyutah came in a few hours later reporting impossible to pass C. Union, open water and no ice foot at all.

Pictured above:
Charlie Percy on deck of S.S. Roosevelt, 1908-1909, ID: 3000.33.254.

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