# Hugh J. Lee — A Negro Explorer at the North Pole character guide

> Hugh J. Lee in A Negro Explorer at the North Pole by Matthew Henson.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Hugh Lee, Lee

**First appearance:** 0002-a-negro-explorer-at-the-north-pole

## Who they are

Expedition member and assistant.

## In the story

### [I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_negro_explorer_at_the_north_pole_se/chapters/i)

Marched with Henson and Peary across the icecap of North Greenland in 1895; remained with Peary and Henson when the rest of the 1893 expedition returned to the U.S.

### [VI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/a_negro_explorer_at_the_north_pole_se/chapters/vi)

Took the census of the Eskimo tribe in 1894, recording 253 individuals.

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