| "Matthew
Henson went to the Pole with Peary because he was a better man than
any of us." |
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Commander
Donald B. MacMillan |
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| Matthew Alexander Henson on the deck
of the USS Roosevelt, 1908. |
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Matthew Henson
assisted Peary on all his Arctic explorations for over 18 years. He
was the only team member to go all the way to the North Pole with
Peary and the 4 best Eskimos. It is very dangerous on the Polar ice
but Matt was best man to have with you. One of his famous explorer
friends said the following about him.
"Even more constantly in
speech than in writing did Peary keep referring to Henson as the
best traveler whom he had known, the most nearly indispensable
man. Peary's verdict is, no doubt, the most important single
testimony to Henson's ability and to his importance in those
epoch-making discovery voyages which resulted,... finally, in
the supreme achievement of reaching an axis of the earth."
Vilhjalmur Stefansson
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Matthew Henson
