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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pledged his word (risum teneatis) to provide the means of conveying him to Canada, admitting at the same time that he had no charge whatever to allege against him; and on Mr Shaw's remonstrating against being thus dragged about as a prisoner without any cause, and in direct violation of his promise, he replied in a passion, "it signifies nothing what you may say or what you may think, you are now in my power, and I will dispose of you as I think proper." These gentlemen were accordingly conveyed to the Rock, but there too, as was naturally to be expected from such characters, no regard was paid to the pledge given, and they were carried on to York Factory.
During their journey, Edward Cain, Mr MacTavish's servant, and Ogoniasto the Iroquois steersman, were separated from them, and endeavoured to be decoyed into the Hudson's Bay Company's service. The former pretended to acquiesce, and was, after a while, sent to one of their posts in the Nipigon country on the North of Lake Superior, where, as soon as he found a favorable op[-]
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