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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miseries which he otherwise thought himself competent to overcome. His men have, nevertheless, expressed their astonishment at the extraordinary vigour with which he by starts exerted himself. Frequently having to wade through an unconnected chaos of water, ice, mire, and snow, up to their middles and higher, Mr Frobisher would sometimes lead the way, when they themselves hesitated and shrunk from the exertion.
At length their only food was the dressed Orignal skin, which they cut, and broiled at night, sometimes, but very seldom, with the addition of some tripe de roche,* which they gathered from the rocks. One day they found hanging on the branch of a tree, left there by some Indians which is often done as signals to their friends, or for other causes, a strip of undressed skin, between two and three feet long and two inches broad. This was a great treat, being far better and more digestible than the dressed leather they had lately lived on.
They
*The Lichen Islandicus, Iceland moss of the druggists.
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