NORTH BERGENHUUS AMT. 51 
intelligent hunter named Hans Natvik, who lives near 
by, can be highly recommended. On the neighbouring 
_ Yelds he usually kills many deer himself every season, 
and is well acquainted with the whole terrain between 
this and Tyen Vand. Sletterust is the best point from 
which to hunt this, which is one of the best districts for 
reindeer in the whole country. Tents are, however, 
almost a seme qua non, as the Seeters, as is universally 
the case in the Bergen Stift, are very bad and dirty. A 
friend writes me word that he crossed the fjeld from 
Lerdal to Aardal, and that in coming down through 
the thick scrub which covers the steep sides of the 
mountains above Vik, his guide informed him that very 
many bears had been killed there. On the whole there 
is scarcely a better prospect of sport anywhere in 
Norway than in the neighbourhood of Aardal. Elks 
are not found in this Amt. 
In Indre Sogn ryper are numerous, and, indeed, 
abound on all the fjeld sides in low serub. Caperealzie 
are common in the woods about Kaupangor and 
Fronningen on the opposite sides of the Sogne, Fjord in 
Indre Sogn; and Jostedal abounds in black game. 
Indeed, I do not hesitate to say that general shooting is 
pretty good in nearly every part of this Amt; and I have 
only given prominence to places where I have been in- 
formed it is superior. Near Horningdals Vand also the 
shooting is very fair. 
