| First, settlers might encounter a relatively densely settled indigenous population that underutilizes the land area they occupy from the settlers' perspective. |
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| The place is not then the hard, footsure reality of the second settlers' knowledge of it, which is based on their own short history. |
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| The settlers' mudhouses were swamped and they could not get out. |
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| Settlements from that era have been found in southwest Greenland and eastern Canada, and sagas such as Saga of Erik the Red and Greenland saga speak of the settlers' exploits. |
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| The once impenetrable and mysterious Amazon basin is riddled with roads, power plants, gold mines, boom towns, cattle ranches, settlers' swiddens, and coca plantations. |
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