118 SPORT IN NORWAY. 
Eidsvold, about forty-two miles from Christiania, and 
in many parts of Hedemarken. The engineer of the 
new railway from from Stor-Hamar (half-way up the 
Midsen lake) to Grundszt, told me that one of the 
first trains they ran on that line nearly proved the 
death of a magnificent elk. Somehow or other it had 
got on the line as the train was coming up, and being 
unused to the strange appearance “of a great long 
thing with a green and red head puffing and skreeking 
like anythink,” as the Yorkshireman said, it stood as if 
entranced to gaze on the strange phenomenon ; and 
had not the engine-driver pulled up in time, it would 
in all probability have been run over. 
Last autumn, 1862, two elk-deer astonished us in 
Christiania by making their appearance in the suburbs of 
the town. They had swum over a branch of the fjord, 
and had found their way into a man’s kitchen-garden, 
much to the alarm of sundry old women and several 
little children. One of them ultimately got killed, 
I regretted to hear. 
Before proceeding to speak of their habits, manner 
of living, &c., I would strongly recommend any Eng- 
lish sportsman who feels desirous of having an elk- 
hunt to make a note of the following hints. By bearing 
them in mind he may stand a good chance of success. 
Let him then go by train from Christiania to Lille 
Strom, half an howr’s trip, and from thence take the 
