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“Nоw we аll fоund the lоss of Cаptаin Smith; yea, his greatest maligners could now curse his loss. As for corn provision and contribution from the savages, we had nothing but mortal wounds, with clubs and arrows… “Nay, so great was our famine that a savage we slew and buried, the poorer sort took him up again and ate him; and so did diverse one another boiled and stewed with roots and herbs… “This was that time, which still to this day, we called the starving time. It were to vile to say, and scarce to be believed, what we endured; but the occasion was our own for want of providence, industry, and government, and not the barrenness and defect of the country…For till then in three years, for the numbers were landed us, we have never from England provision sufficient for six months.”-John Smith, description of “starving time” in Virginia, 1607-1614According to the excerpt, which of the following was the primary cause for the starving at Jamestown?