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.

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

of Providence, paddled up the stream, assisted by the night tide for about ten miles, with lighter hearts, and more cheerful anticipations of the future than they had for a long time before indulged in.

Though M^r Frobisher's wasted frame still exhibited the sad effects of his sufferings, no sooner did he find himself liberated from the hard oppression under which he had groaned, than his spirits and mental energy returned, and supported him, in a measure, for a considerable time. Although he still constantly complained of his head, his healthy appearance had partially returned, and the buoyant state of his mind, from the hopes and expectations of ultimate escape, enabled him to encounter the difficulties that presented themselves even at the outset of their labours, with comparative and unlooked for vivacity and fortitude. He could now occasionally join his men in the chorus of some voyageur's boatsong, with which they beguiled the tedium of the voyage and the labour of the paddle.

It was not, however, during the few first days

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