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

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"October 24^th. Clear weather, very cold, the ice not breakable. Threw away our canoe, set our net, took 2 white fish."*

"October 25^th. We marched all day, passed many portages in the woods along the rapids; the river we find long; encamped on a lake." (This was Wepenapec Lake, which is about eighteen miles long[.]) "[S]et our net, took 3 carp. We found vestiges of Indians here."

"October 26^th. We followed the Indians' track all day;

"passed

*Nets are set under the ice by making two holes at a distance from each other equal to the length of the net, and passing it from one to the other by means of poles. The white fish mentioned in this journal are a species that abound in most of the rivers and lakes in that country. They are excellent eating, and weigh about half a pound each. It is to be observed that, though at the time the fishery of these unfortunate travellers was not scanty, they could not lay up a stock from any surplus they might have as they had neither salt nor any other means of preserving the fish besides in their emaciated and wasted state it was next

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