37 32

Montreal; that one day Colin Robertson called him into his room and said "tiens, Thomas, je te fais present de deux cents francs, voilà un ecrit, tu iras au bureau à Montreal et tu les recevras, mais il faut que tu t'engages pour nous à Montreal." i.e. "look, Thomas, I make you a present of two hundred livres, here is an order, you will go to the office at Montreal to receive them, but you must engage yourself with us at Montreal." He afterwards embarked in a canoe with Robertson and Clark, and having met a canoe of winterers, who were going down to Montreal, he was put on board, and came by way of Sault S^te Marie, and upper Canada, to Montreal.

Continue To return to the prisoners at York Factory, M^r Shaw and M^r MacTavish were assigned apartments within the factory, with permission to walk on the leads or flat roof, but with strict orders not to pass the gate, and they were likewise forbidden from holding any intercourse communication with the other gentlemen, their fellow sufferers. (M^r Frobisher's journal continued)

"July 13^th. We are deprived of … intercourse with Mess. Shaw and MacTavish. July 14^th. We applied for medicines, being all sick with colds, but were refused.

[32]