834 APPENDIX. 
REINDEER Huntine.—(P. 94.) 
A friend of mine who has lately returned from Norway gives 
me avery poor account of reindeer-hunting. The fact is, the 
Bonder now hunt themselves, and may be seen by scores scour- 
ing the fjelds in all directions, even in the most remote corners. 
One day, he tells me, he saw a herd of nine hinds and calves 
at a distance of about four English miles high up on the “‘snee- 
fonds” of the Vaage Fjelds; but, as it was late in the evening, he 
was reluctantly obliged to decline stalking them. The following 
morning he purposed going after them, but found himself fore- 
stalled by a party of native hunters from Lom. ‘I grieve to find,” 
he adds, “ that this sport is now utterly destroyed everywhere by 
the natives. When first I hunted in the Vaage mountains, some 
years ago, it was a rarity to find a Norwegian who ever came up 
so far to hunt. Now there are dozens! It seems to be the same 
in the Osterdalen and Reendalen districts. ‘There were also about 
thirty of these fellows hunting on the Rundene this year. When 
I was there, in 1858, there were not more than two, Therefore 
good-bye, I fear, for the future, to anything like real sport in 
the way of reindeer hunting, except it were possible to find some 
remote spot beyond the region of Seters or Bénder, and this, I 
fear, is scarcely to be found.” 
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