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not allowed to stir, though the heat was intense and the mosquitos very numerous, owing to the underwood being remarkably thick on the island. In the mutilated fragments of M^r Frobisher's journal, (kept in pencil, for he was all along denied pen and ink) which were found with his corpse, he thus describes this part of his treatment. "June 19^th. We were crossed over to an island in the middle of the stream with two of our men; here we were not suffered to stir out of our tent, or even to satisfy the private calls of nature, without being threatened to be beat down with a musquet, and a man … with a loaded one attending us, all this by the orders of a man who titles himself Governor Williams. Our food rotten pemican.^‡ The cause of treating me thus is merely because I attempted resistance when the ruffians took me, and told them man to man I did not fear them."

Racette, the freeman, and his family, with the Canadian with with his wife and two sons, and an Indian family that were there, were also ordered over to the island, and their can tents and canoes forcibly taken away from them; most likely to prevent for fear that by their means any [news] intelligence might reaching the other parties of North West canoes that were expected, and thus [would] the prevent the Williams from following up the his blow.

He did follow it up as far as in him lay; for on the 20^th of June the brigade of loaded canoes of the North

^‡(describe what pemican is in a note)

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