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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The Hudson's Bay chief, Williams, being gone, as before said; almost all the men being away to their respective departments; and the Company's schooner having sailed to winter at Churchill; they were much less narrowly watched than before, and their sentinels were discontinued. Indeed the approach of winter, the severity of which in those parts can not be described to, or conceived by, the inhabitants of more genial climates, lulled all suspicion of their intention to escape; as every one but such as had
• groaned under oppression's iron fang
would have considered such an attempt as one of insanity or of desperation, and in fact it partook of both.
With regard to the preparations they made for the ardous undertaking they had in view, it seems that, in addition to his own observation during his conveyance to York Factory, Mr Frobisher had procured some written instructions for finding the way, with a rough sketch of the country through which he was to pass, and which were found in a torn and imperfect state with his
body
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