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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[-]lowed. Their exhaustion was so great from want of nourishment and fatigue that it was only on the 24th of November they got to Moose Lake. They eat their mocassins on the road, and they once got three small fish about six inches long in Lake Bourbon; and this was all the food they had for four days. Their famished and utterly wretched appearance told too well what they had suffered. They were of course unable to return with the men, whom Mr Nelson, the gentleman who was in charge of the post for the North West Company, sent out, without the least delay, to relieve Mr Frobisher. The spot however was easily found, and on the 27th of November the dead body of Mr Frobisher was discovered in the same place where he had been left by Turcotte and Lepine. It appeared that he had consumed the piece of skin, and had likewise eat the heel of one of his shoes. His body was found lying across the place where the fire had been, and the lower part from the hips to the midleg was burnt and partially consumed. His hand grasped a stick, with which it appeared as if he had been stirring the fire or raking it nearer to towards him, and that in
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