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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de roche, (the lichen islandicus, Iceland moss of the druggists) which they gathered from the rocks. One day they found hanging on a branch of a tree, left there by some Indians, as is often done for signals to their friends, or for other causes, a of undressed buffaloe skin, between two and three feet long and two inches broad – this was a great treat, being far better and more digestible than the dressed leather they had lately lived on. They broiled part of it the same night and Mr Frobisher partook of it with much comparative relish.
n the 9th of November when they had reached the border of Lake Bourbon, or Cedar Lake, although within but a of Moose Lake , the North West C Establishment to which they had directed their weary steps, Mr Frobisher sunk entirely under the wretchedness of his fate. No longer able to walk in the least, he had for some distance been carried by his men on their shoulders. But human nature could not longer endure this. Enfeebled themselves it would have been certain destruction to all, either to attempt carrying him farther, or to remain there, without food, or assistance, or the slightest chance of procuring them.
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