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and four nights. Their famished and utterly wretched appearance told too well what they had suffered. They were of course unable to return with the men, whom M^r Nelson, the gentleman who was in charge of the post, for the North West Company sent out, without the least delay, to relieve M^r Frobisher. They The spot however was easily found, and on the 27^th of November the dead body of M^r Frobisher was discovered in the same place where he had been left by Turcotte and Lepine. It appeared that he had consumed the piece of buffaloe skin, and had likewise eat the heal of one of his shoes; yet the immediate cause of his death does not appear to have been either complete starvation, […] either by hunger or by cold, but to have been from the effects of that fatal blow on the head so often alluded to and so bitterly complained of by him. His body was found lying across the place where the fire had been, and the lower part from the hips to the midleg was burnt and partially consumed. His left & rig hand grasped a stick, with which it appeared as if he had been stirring the fire or raking it nearer towards him, and that in doing so he had and in leaning over for that purpose, he had been attacked by the same giddiness and dizziness which had before affected his head arising from that blow, had consequently fallen into the fire, and from

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