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

some on the right and some on the left hand of the direct route, but all right upon the route. Where these fail it is necessary to look out for portage paths, beaver-dams, vestiges of encampments or other signs of canoes having passed; and all these are necessarily made more difficult to discover or trace when the snow falls and covers every thing with one uniform and undistinguishable veil. The increasing severity of the weather not only bore hard upon them, scantily as they were provided against it, but the accumulation of the ice in the rivers, threatened, and soon accomplished, the entire stoppage of their progress by water. The next legible place in the journal runs thus: "... River, before they were expended, took 18 fish."

"October 21^st. We encamped in the ... walking ..."

"October 23^d. We had a heavy fall of snow, took 20 white fish. Slept on the ice, attempted to break it, but it's too strong."

After stopping nearly two days still hoping to get on in their canoe, it being yet an early period for the rivers to be entirely frozen up, they were forced to give up that

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