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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taken, which struck such a panic into the doughty Governor and his party, that, on the following day he broke up his camp early in the morning in great hurry and confusion, and proceeded with his flotilla and all his forces, which now consisted of about 120 men, towards the North end of Lake Winipie, taking his prisoners with him who were each put in separate embarkations.
In the night of that day Mr William Mackintosh contrived to make his escape. His indisposition, which was a diarrhœa, required his frequent retirement, gave him the opportunity, while they were encamped on a peninsula jutting out into the lake, to construct, at various short intervals, in the woods close to the encampment, a sort of rough raft with some branches of trees; having prepared this frail embarkation, he boldly, at night, trusted himself upon it to cross the water, with a branch for a paddle, succeeded in gaining the opposite shore unperceived, and got along the coast of the lake on foot, suffering much hardship from the want of provisions, from fatigue, and from illness, until he fortunately hailed a canoe which was
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