Nephi noted that they traveled in the wilderness "keeping in the most fertile parts of the wilderness, which were in the borders near the Red Sea" (1 Nephi 16:14). Nephi thus tends to at least divide the term "wilderness" into parts, and it seems that "the most fertile parts" of that wilderness were "in the borders near the Red Sea." [Alan C. Miner, Personal Notes]
1 Nephi 16:15 Slaying food by the way with our bows and our arrows ([Illustration]): Ashurbanipal's servants stringing bows for hunting. Nineveh. c. 650 B.C. Photograph of a wall relief. [Tyndale House, The Illustrated Bible Dictionary, Vol. 1, p. 114]