Narrative of Circumstances attending the death of the late Benjamin Frobisher, Esquire a partner of the North West Company of Montreal, ca. 1820 Revised Text.

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 [Revised Text]. An electronic transcription. MFTP #0020

distress, starvation and death to those engaged in them and in disappointment and loss to their employers. The success of the North West Company and the want of it in those trials of their rivals may be ascribed to the different organisation of the two Companies, to the experience and providence of the one and to the inexperience and improvidence of the other.

The only practicable route to and from Athabasca and the northern departments of the fur trade, at least the only route that can with any degree of convenience be pursued, is through the north western outlet of Lake Winipie, leading through Cedar or Bourbon Lake to the River Saskatchewan. Between that lake and Lake Winipeg is the Grand Rapid, as it is called, consisting of two ledges of rocks, the passage of which, for the distance of four or five miles is extremely difficult, and, for rather more than a mile, is wholly impracticable for loaded canoes. There is therefore a portage for that distance, across which all goods have to be carried, and it is also customary for the

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