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Further northwards is the Exinepan Ey: it is a 
very likely-looking stream. There is also another river 
a little above this running out at Mo. In both of these 
I believe fair fishing may be had. 
Some of the best reindeer ground is to be found in 
the eastern parts of this Amt. The neighbourhood of 
Vikor, on the Hardanger Fjord, at Graven, Ulvik, 
Kinservik, and on the large and extensive range of 
mountains towards Hallingdal and Nummedal, and to 
the east of Vossevangen, will be found usually to abound 
with these animals. Red deer are found on some of 
the islands off the coast. Ryper, too, are generally 
plentiful. As the forests in this Amt are comparatively 
of small dimensions, black game and capercalzie are not 
so numerous as elsewhere. Of elks, I believe there are 
none. ‘The average number of bears annually killed is 
small, being only 111. 
I had always been at a loss to understand why the 
number of bears killed annually in this Amt was so 
small; but I have been given to understand, on good 
authority, that the smallness of the returns must not in 
this case be taken as any evidence of their scarcity. 
‘On the contrary,” writes my informant, “I am 
inclined to think that in some parts of the Hardanger 
country, they are more numerous than in any other 
part of Norway. The reason is, that the peasants here 
know nothing at all about bear-hunting, and, in fact, 
