The World According to Matthew

3/4/2008

assignment 21

Matthew Henson was born in 1866 in Charles Country, Maryland. While working as a cabin boy on one of the China boats traveling across the world, he met Admiral Robert E. Perry. The men became fast friends. They planned to go to the North Pole. They were among the first men to try to go to the North Pole. The first time they tried they were sent back because of bad weather, but the second time Matthew Henson went alone because the Admiral was ill. Matthew made it and he placed the American flag at the North Pole. Matthew Henson was the first black man on the North Pole, but he was not the last.

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3/4/2008 - Short but to the point