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

He then told them to be of good cheer and make haste, and bidding them farewell turned round in his blanket as if to take repose, or to conceal the emotions that must have embittered that moment of parting from the last human countenance he was fated to behold. An anticipation too natural in the state of desolate wretchedness in which he was left, and from which, he must have been acutely sensible, scarcely any thing short of a miracle could relieve him.

The winter road through the woods from Rabbit point to Moose Lake, had the men been acquainted with it would have brought them to the post in two days; but they did not know it, and were afraid of running the risk of losing themselves. With the summer road they were acquainted and that therefore they fol[-]

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intercourse with the Canadian voyageurs. Dogs are used in all the Northern parts of the continent to draw the sledges by which travelling in the winter season is alone practicable, and by which provisions and every thing else are conveyed from one post to another.

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