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on separate slips of paper illegible, nor can any thing be made out till the 13^th of October, when M^r Frobisher had got away and […] made effected his escape.

It appears that the hardships he endured, and the anxiety of his mind had completely undermined hi[s] health, and that his intellects were not a little impaired, attributable no doubt greatly to the severe blow on the head which he had received and of the effects of which he never ceased from complaining being also in consequence subject to a giddiness which took him at times and rendered him incapable of standing. M^r Campbell's narrative continues to shew in forcible colours the misery of their situation, and the effects produced upon their health by their ill treatment." We found ourselves," he says, "daily more neglected; the season was very sultry and the water very bad: we could scarcely obtain a sufficiency of this necessary article, bad as it was, and were therefore obliged to employ the Indians about the place to bring in some in a clandestine manner, for which we gave them part of our rations. We were all afflicted with severe colds. I applied for some medicines and liquor, which I obtained some time after, apparently with great reluctance; what I received was a phial of peppermint, and a quart of rum, which we got on account of the North West Company. M^r Shaw was at this time very ill with a cold: M^r MacTavish was also indisposed; and M^r Frobisher was reduced to a mere skeleton. Our situation was truly distressing: I enjoyed better health

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