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been explored by any traveller. It is a wild and 
thinly-inhabited district, and the game is consequently 
but little disturbed. Bears seem to be pretty numerous 
in parts, and elks also. I think Gammel Lérdalen, on 
the Loren Ely, a tributary of the Swedish Vestre Dal 
Ely, would be the best head-quarters. Tolerable ac- 
commodation is to be had at Eric Lordalens, and a 
capital bear-hunter, Johann Persen, lives close by. 
There were a great many wild ducks on the Loren Ely, 
between Gammel and Ny Lérdalen. I was greatly 
pleased with the boats on the Loren, and the admirable 
way in which they are managed. The boats are very 
similar in form to some of the North American canoes ; 
and I thought that Eric and his nephew handled their 
poles almost as cleverly in the rapids as my old friends 
in New Brunswick used to do among those of the 
Nessissiquit. In some parts of this eastern forest 
district | found black game very abundant, particularly 
on the eastern side of the Osen Sd; it was, however, 
no easy matter to get shots at them.” 
Bears are tolerably numerous. In 1861, an officer 
in the Norwegian army, and an ardent sportsman, had 
the unprecedented good luck of shooting three bears in 
one day in Osterdalen. The average number killed 
is 12% per annum. 
