Less and less

The Greenlanders are now facing lots of misfortune. People have died of sickness and starvation, and there are fewer cows, and not much forage for the sheep and goats. The hunting isn't going well, the wild animals have less to eat and are less plentiful, and there are fewer men to go out and hunt. At this point, I wonder how long the downward slide will continue. I imagine that the end of the book will be, "they all sailed away back to Norway or Iceland and gave it up."