Seals.

Large birds.

The presence of the gun, and the willingness to use it, would later appear in accounts of how Marguerite managed to survive.

The food provisions were finite.

They would last weeks, perhaps months, but not the years that she would ultimately spend on the island.

At some point, the provisions would run out, and whatever she had learned about living off the land would become the difference between life and death.

The seeds — if they were actually provided, and the consistency of their mention across sources suggests they may have been — were a strange gift.