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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thing be made out, till the 13th of October; when Mr Frobisher had effected his escape.
It appears that the hardships he endured, and the anxiety of his mind, completely undermined his health, and that his intellects were not a little impaired, attributable no doubt greatly to the severe blow on the head he had received, and of the effects of which he never ceased complaining, being often also in consequence subject to a giddiness which took him at times, and rendered him incapable of standing. Mr Campbell's narrative continues to show in forcible colours the misery of their situation and the effects produced upon their health by their ill treatment. "We found ourselves," he says, "daily more neglected; the season was very sultry and the water very bad: we could scarcely obtain a sufficiency of this article bad as it was, and were therefore obliged to employ the Indians about the place to bring in some in a clandestine manner for which we gave them part of our rations. We were all afflicted with severe colds. I applied for some medicines and liquor, which I obtained sometime after, apparently with great
reluctance
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