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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ground that was clear from snow, and, after holding a consultation, it was agreed that the two men should leave Mr Frobisher there, and make the best of their way to Moose Lake to send off people to his relief. This plan was put into practice next morning. They left him under the shelter of a screen of pine branches, lying wrapped up in a good blanket, with a good fire near him, abundance of firewood collected within his reach, and water in a hollow part of the rock. What was left of the dried skin, a piece about twelve inches in length, they broiled for him on the coals before they went; and, in their relation of these affecting incidents, when asked whether that was the only article of food left with Mr Frobisher, they answered, no, that they also left him a pair of leather mittens, and his own European leather shoes! and that all the means of subsistence they took with them for themselves were a pair of leather mocassins each! When we consider the misery this wretched party must have suffered who considered a strip of skin that had hung
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