Commander Peary : Robert Edwin Peary (1856-1920), American naval officer & explorer, he ‘discovered’ of North Pole on 6 April 1909.
... that eminently truthful diplomat, Lord Curzon, once had the boldness to lecture on our mendacity and the superior truth of the Occidental, have watched the vulgar squabble between Dr. Cook and Commander Peary about the discovery of the North Pole. Long ago, most of the romance and mystery had gone out of the search for the Pole. The quest, though still extremely difficult and even perilous to an incautious ...
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