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
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Mr Campbell and Mr Frobisher were then conveyed in a canoe to a small island in the middle of the stream, about a quarter of a mile from the shore where, with the two men before mentioned, they were placed under strict confinement, in a tent guarded by De Meuron soldiers, out of which they were not allowed to stir, although the heat was intense, and the mosquitoes very numerous, owing to the underwood being remarkably thick on the island. In the mutilated fragments of Mr. Frobisher's journal (kept in pencil for he was all along denied pen and ink) which was found with his corpse, he thus describes this part of his treatment. "June 19th. We were crossed over to an island in the middle of the stream with two of our men; here we were not suffered to stir out of our tent, or even to satisfy the private calls of nature without being threatened to be beat down with a musket, and a man ... with a loaded one attending us, all this by the orders of a man who titles himself Governor Williams. Our food rotten pemican.* The cause of treating me thus
is
*Pemican is the flesh of buffaloes or moosedeer dried
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