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

"is merely because I attempted resistance when those ruffians took me, and told them, man to man, I did not fear them."

Racette, the Canadian, with his wife and two sons, and an Indian family that were there, were also ordered over to tha[…] island, and their tents and canoes forcibly taken away from them; most likely for fear that, by their means, intelligence might reach the other parties of North West Company canoes that were expected, and thus prevent Williams from following up his blow.

He did follow it up as far as in him lay. On the 20^th of June the brigade* of loaded canoes of the North West Company from English River reached the Grand Rapid, at the head of which they were waylaid, and the guide who had them in charge, Joseph Paul,

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and pounded, mixed with grease or fat: it is generally put into bags made out of the raw hide: it is an universal article of food amongst the voyageurs, and Indians in the North West, when travelling.

*Brigade is the term applied in North West America to a flotilla of canoes bound to or from a trading post or department[.]

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