The early explorers and settlers told of abundant deer in the early 1800s and yet almost in the same breath bemoaned the lack of this succulent game animal.

早期的探险者和定居者在 1800 年代初讲述了丰富的鹿，但几乎同时哀叹这种多汁的猎物的缺乏。

When a species, owing to highly favourable circumstances, increases inordinately in numbers in a small tract, epidemics—at least, this seems generally to occur with our game animals—often ensue; and here we have a limiting check independent of the struggle for life.

当一个物种， 由于非常有利的环境， 在一个小范围内数量过度增加时，流行病——至少， 这似乎通常发生在我们的猎物身上——经常随之而来；在这里，我们有一个独立于生存斗争的限制性检查。