During this time I made my rounds in the woods for game every day when the rain permitted me, and made frequent discoveries in these walks of something or other to my advantage; particularly, I found a kind of wild pigeons, which build, not as wood-pigeons in a tree, but rather as house-pigeons, in the holes of the rocks; and taking some young ones, I endeavoured to breed them up tame, and did so; but when they grew older they flew away, which perhaps was at first for want of feeding them, for I had nothing to give them; however, I frequently found their nests, and got their young ones, which were very good meat.
Durante este tiempo y cuando las lluvias me lo permitían, iba a cazar todos los días al bosque. Hice varios descubrimientos que me fueron de utilidad, particularmente, des cubrí una especie de paloma salvaje que no anidaba en los árboles como las palomas torcaces sino en las cavidades de las rocas como las domésticas y, llevándome algunas crías me dediqué a domesticarlas, mas cuando crecieron, se escaparon todas, seguramente por hambre pues no tenía mucho que darles de comer.