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
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in the journal, are a species that in most of the rivers and lakes in that country. They are excellent eating and weigh about half a pound each. It is to be observed that though, at times, the fishing of these unfortunate travellers was not scanty, they could not lay up a stock from any surplus they might have as they had neither salt nor any other means of preserving the fish, besides in their emaciated and wasted state it was next to impossible to carry any thing in addition to what they had.
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