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amfiIriIs Only Negro toHave Reached PoleGFew people ralize that Matt j g Henson, Peary’s negro lieutenant,!who now lives in New Y'ork and is | Bwithin a few weeks of his sixtiethb rthday, was actually the first j man to reach the Pole. This hap-elifpened more than seventeen years ago -during the Peary expedition. “Henson, the trail breaker, during the last lap of the expedition, writes Lin Bonner, in an article in Liberty, “was at the Pole forty-five minutes ahead of Peanv.”»»Commander Byrd flew safely, to and from the Pole, only a few weeks ago, covering the 1,200 miles1 in less than sixteen hours theauthor points out. But it tookPeary and Matt Henson with theirt]JaeUuooanavt;Cstortuous trail, more than forty days to cover less than 500 miles.The negro, who reached the Pole with the Peary expedition, told the writer, “When we got to the Pole, we gave a cheer and shook hands, but we were so tired j \ it was not long before we turned, e;Cisin and slept. In fact, the firstthing I did when I stopped was to * sit down and wait for the com-t*99CU01d;t:olmander, so I guess I was the first man to sit on top of the world, explains Matt Henson, the descendant of a race bred under the j jf 1 equator who stood at the Pole physically supreme, having had to thaw out with the warmth of hisaiPown body the feet and hands of the Eskimos who were with theparty.ts
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Greensburg Daily News
Greensburg, Indiana, US
Tue, Oct 19, 1926
Page 7
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