Wilcocke, Samuel Hull. Narrative of Circumstances attending the death of the late Benjamin Frobisher, Esquire a partner of the North West Company of Montreal, ca. 1820. An electronic transcription. MFTP #0019
"than the others but was far from being well. No one appeared inclined to give us any relief: pity was totally out of the question. We requested permission to visit Messrs Shaw and MacTavish, and to take the air on the outside of the fort, but were refused and spurned at. In this dilemma we received timely assistance from a quarter I least expected. There was among the servants in the kitchen a young man who had served as waiting man to one of the Hudson's Bay masters, and had wintered at the same place I had; this man, feeling for our miserable situation, one day when he brought in our victuals, told me he had three quarts of rum, ten pounds of loaf sugar, and a pound of tea, which begged us to accept, and that he would put it through the grating of one of the back windows at night, that whenever he could find a favourable opportunity he would send to us from the kitchen the best victuals he could procure. To this generous fellow I gave a draft on our house in England for a few pounds of which he accepted after much entreaty. Williams continued at the depot (the Rock) until late in the season, remain to arrange all their canoes and men for the Northern Departments, and after seeing them all off he came down to York Factory. A few days previous to his arrival Mess. Shaw and MacTavish were put in a small building back in the yard
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