Enormous wild turkeys and myriads of partridges, pheasants and pigeons roosted in the neighboring woods.

Sometimes the turkeys and deer came down to the houses of the colonists to feed.

A stag was frequently sold by the Indians for a loaf of bread, or a knife, or even for a tobacco pipe.

The river produced the finest fish.

There was a great plenty of sturgeon, which, at that time, the Christians did not make use of, but the Indians ate them greedily.