150 SPORT IN NORWAY. 
well, and became extremely plump and fat; but they 
never arrived at such a pitch of domestication as to 
be used as draught animals.* They all of them died, 
however, before completing the third year, of diarrhoea 
or dysentery. 
The average number of elks that are shot in Norway 
has been computed to amount to about 200 head per 
annum ; many, perhaps the greater part, unlawfully. 
And Mr. Asbjornsen considers that the total number 
of elk-deer in Norway may be put ia at about 
5000 head. ; 
The value of an elk-deer ranges from 20 to 30 dollars, 
or from £4 10s. to £6 15s., though they are often 
worth more. The flesh of a full-grown elk seldom 
weighs less than 40 bismer-pund, though they have 
been known to attain double this weight. 
Of late years the number of elk that have been shot 
unlawfully during the winter, both in Norway and 
Sweden, has attracted the attention of government ; 
and I was informed that a bill would be laid before 
the Storthing which is at present sitting, the object 
* An officer at Halifax, Nova Scotia, kept a young bull moose 
for a considerable time in the barrack-yard. Its great delight was 
to lie with its head on a soldier’s lap, and have tobacco-smoke 
puffed up its nostrils! It got its master into numberless scrapes by 
its love for cabbages. No paling was high enough to prevent its 
invading the neighbouring kitchen gardens. It died at last from 
an over-feed of turnips. I have been told that moose have been 
trained to draw in America. 
+ March, 1863. 
