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
when some means were thought of, or plans devised for facilitating their escape. To th the two men were also nothing loth, and dreaded scarcely any thing more than to the winter in the dismal confinement in which they found themselves. Both tall and strong beyond the usual standard and size of Canadian of hardy habits and tried fidelity; Poor Frobisher had long contemplated the chances of getting away, with their assistance, and exploring his dreary way through the winter wilderness of Lakes, and Rivers, forests, and mountains, ice and snow, which divided him from the nearest post of the North West Company, from the nearest place where he might expect to meet with friends, assistance, and commiseration. He calculated too much upon the consciousness of his own former strength of body, hardihood of constitution and innate resources, allowed his present debilitated, reduced, and affected state to be weighed in the balance against the dreadful extremities of fatigue and hunger he well knew he must encounter. His whole solicitude was to from the grasp of his oppressors. In addition to his own observations during his conveyance to York Factory had procured some written instructions for finding the way with a rough sketch of the country through which he was pass, and which were found, in a torn & imperfect
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