Plains hills seems a good place to settle. The other possible solution, without seeing any extra land, is to settle in place in order to hook up also fish early for early food. For the scouting options, I see three possibilities: NE-SE, SE-S and SW-S. I'm currently leaning towards SW-S, since that has highest probability of revealing land that would warrant some other settling plan.
As for tech path, IMO Hunting->AH would be preferable. Hooking the food early enables growth and quick building of workers & settlers. Especially if we get a civ with Agriculture and tech Hunting, we'll get AH with discount. If we go for any civ with Agriculture and TW as starters, my preferred tech path would be Hunting->AH->Pottery. Another good option would be to start with Zulus and tech AH->TW->Pottery.
As for tech path, IMO Hunting->AH would be preferable. Hooking the food early enables growth and quick building of workers & settlers. Especially if we get a civ with Agriculture and tech Hunting, we'll get AH with discount. If we go for any civ with Agriculture and TW as starters, my preferred tech path would be Hunting->AH->Pottery. Another good option would be to start with Zulus and tech AH->TW->Pottery.