Accompanied by slaves bearing presents of food, seed corn for the spring planting and pelts of deer and bear and wildcat, Pocahontas was received at Jamestown with much ceremonial.
"The Princess Pocahontas"
Virginia Watson
This was due to the careful instructions of Natty Dingle, at whose feet I sat to learn woodcraft, and who used the method to save all his pelts; for often an animal, when caught in a trap, will snap the bone by a twist of his body and then cut the leg off with his teeth, and so escape, leaving his foot in the trap's jaws.
"A Little Brother to the Bear and other Animal Stories"
William Long
But the beasts' pelts were too strong.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook