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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establishment of the Hudson's Bay Company already mentioned, at the north of Lake Winipie, was at no great distance, and Turcotte and Lepine, seeing the little prospect there was of Mr Frobisher's overcoming the hardships that still remained to be encountered (they had travelled full 500 miles, and had yet about 400 to go) and of his surviving these accumulated distresses, proposed to him to repair to that post and give himself again up. This, however, he determinately refused to do: his horror was so great at the idea of again falling into the remorseless hands of the ruffians by whom he had been so grossly illtreated, that he preferred braving death in its most appalling shape, a death by starvation and fatigue, by cold and by debility in the trackless and howling wilderness. "Non, mes enfans," said he, "je mourroi plutôt en chemin, que de me rendre de nouveau à ses bourreaux." "No, my good fellows, I will rather die by the way, than again put myself into the power of those hangmen." They encouraged
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