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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body; he had his watch, but no compass. They had all three pocket knives and tinder boxes with flint and steel. Mr Frobisher was very bare of clothes, and in this respect his men were better off than himself. He had however a good three point blanket, and his men had also each one. For some time back, they had, in contemplation of such an expedition, economised as much as possible in the consumption of the pemican and the meal that was served out to them, and had laid by all they could from their scanty allowance to form a stock for the journey, and which, at the time of their departure, they calculated would be enough to last them all three for about a fortnight. They had also one dressed orignal skin*, whole, and some pieces, in order to supply themselves with shoes, or mocassins† together with two or three spare pair of mocassins and leather mittens, which they did not anticipate were to become part of their stock of eatables.
They procured an old net which was carefully secured, being always wrapped round the body of one of their
bodies
*Orignal, the Moose deer.
†Indian shoes made of dressed skin, and tied with leather strings.
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