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They lay that night on a rocky piece of ground that was clear from snow, and after after holding a consultation, it was agreed that the two men should leave M^r Frobisher there, and make the best of their way to Moose fo Lake to send off assistance to him people to his relief. This plan was put in practice next morning. They left him under the shelter of a hut screen of pine branches lying wrapped up in a good blanket, with a good fire near him, abundance of fire wood collected within his reach, also and water in a hollow part of the rock. and What was left of the dried buffaloe skin, a piece about twelve inches in length, they broiled for him on the coals before they went, and leaving besides a pair of leather mittens and his own leather European shoes, as the only other provisions the only articles they could convert into food which they took with them, were a pair of leather mocassins each. in their re[l]ation of these affecting incidents, when asked whether that was the only [prov...] article of food left with M^r Frobisher, they answered, no, that they also left him a pair of fur leather mittens and his own European leather shoes, and that all the provisions means of subsistence they took with them for themselves were a pair of leather mocassins each! When we consider the misery this wretched party must have suffered, who considered the a strip of buffaloe skin leather skin that hung for months on a tree, as a delicacy, and who in taking a review of their provisions reckon their leather shoes as part of them art^l of food, the mind recoils with horror at the picture, and boils with indignation against those whose by their lawless violences outrages and brutal outrages were the real authors of this distress, and of the calamitous end of M^r Frobisher. When the men

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