Amongst birds, there were swans, white cranes, brent-geese, ducks, teal, the redbreasted thrush (which the Americans call "robin"), brown larks (_Anthus_), snipe, and other birds too numerous to mention, which Champlain seems to have brought down with his fowling-piece in sufficient quantities to feed the whole party whilst waiting for the capture of deer on a large scale.
Meanwhile, many of the Indians were catching fish, "trout and pike of prodigious size".

When they desired to secure a large number of deer, they would make an enclosure in a fir forest in the form of the two converging sides of a triangle, with an open base.

The two sides of these traps were made of great stakes of wood closely pressed together, from 8 to 9 feet high; and each of the sides was 1000 yards long.

At the point of the triangle there was a little enclosure.

The Hurons were so expeditious in this work that in less than ten days these long fences and the "pound" or enclosure at their convergence were finished.