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employment to the Bonder to snare and trap the game 
for the markets; for it is seldom that they shoot 
them. 
~ In 1859, a friend of mine was shooting in the neigh- 
bourhood of Maristuen on the Fille Fjeld, than which 
no better grouse-ground can well be imagined, and 
though he had two good dogs with him, yet never 
a feather did he see. 
In the above remarks I am of course only alluding 
to the feathered game. As regards reimdeer hunting, 
which is par excellence as far as shooting is con- 
cerned, the sport of the country, the matter is totally 
different. But even on this I would remark that 
whoever wishes to have good sport it must be made his 
whole and sole object; everything else must give way 
to it, and the sportsman must not be led here and there 
by tempting offers of a bear, or an elk-deer, &e. And 
further, whether reindeer hunting will repay the time 
and labour devoted to it depends principally on a man’s 
powers of endurance, physical and moral. And I 
would strenuously advise no one to set out on a 
reindeer expedition who cannot undergo a large amount 
of bodily fatigue, and endure a still larger amount 
of disappointment. 
Fortified, however, with strength of body and 
strength of mind, determined not to be put out of 
tune by poor accommodation, and still poorer fare, 
