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House, a An estab^t of the Hudson's Bay Company's establishment already mentioned at the North end of Lake Winipie, was not far distant, and Turcotte and Lepine, seeing the little prospect there was of M^r Frobisher's overcoming the difficulties hardships that still remained to be encountered (they had travelled full about 450 full 500 miles, and had yet full about 250 400 to go) and surviving these accumulated hardships distresses, proposed to him to repair to that post and give himself again up. tThis, however, he determinately refused to do: his horror was so great at the idea of again falling into the remorseless hands of the ruffians by whom he had been so grossly ill treated, that he preferred braving death in its most appalling shape, a death by starvation and fatigue, by cold and by debility, in the trackless and howling wilderness: "Non, mes enfans", said he, "Je me mourrerai plutôt […] en chemin, que de me rendre de nouveau à ces bourreaux". "No, my good fellows, I will rather die by the way, than again put myself into the power of those hangmen." They encouraged each other therefore still to persevere, and though they were speedily reduced to have recourse to what articles of leather they could spare for food had to supply the cravings of hunger, they floundered on as well as they were able. The last entries in M^r F's journal are these:

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