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Undoubtedly, the lack of game and soil attributed to something else too: Famine. But the settlers were also to blame for this. Most were too lazy to do any sort of farming or hunting, so crops were simply nonexistent. The lack of farming, reliance mansb xmsbc sd nmash xasn sx asdbssb