The closest correct answer here is, D. The settlers faced abandonment from their mother country. Actually, the struggles of the French in the new world were not due to hostilities (they met friendly Huron Indians), mutiny or disease, at least at the beginning. In fact, it was more due to a lack of interest in the new lands until Louis XIV turned the colony of New France into a royal province in the 1660s. From then on the colony began to increase in number of people and extension of territory.