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.
Chaque jour j'allais chasser et faire ma ronde dans les bois, à moins que la pluie ne m'en empêchât, et dans ces promenades je faisais assez souvent la découverte d'une chose ou d'une autre à mon profit. Je trouvais surtout une sorte de pigeons qui ne nichaient point sur les arbres comme font les ramiers, mais dans des trous de rocher, à la manière des pigeons domestiques.