CHAPTER XV. 



WILD BEASTS VERY DESTRUCTIVE SKALLS BAND MAGICAL EFFECTS OF THE 

 DRUM THE SKALL MAN WOUNDED BY THE BEAR ACCIDENT 

 TRIUMPHAL RETURN THE CAROUSE. 



THERE were a few bears, as said, in the vicinity of 

 Ronnum, but they were almost altogether confined to the 

 forest lying between the lake Wenern, and the North Sea. 

 Wolves were rather numerous; and lynxes by no means 

 uncommon. 



The destruction caused by wild beasts was considerable 

 by the wolf and the lynx in particular; not, however, as 

 respected mankind for Scandinavian wild beasts, unless 

 attacked, seldom molest people but amongst domestic 

 animals. In the district of Dalsland alone, which extends 

 from Wenersborg to the confines of Wermeland which 

 may be about fifty miles in length, by twenty or so in 

 breadth it appeared by official returns, that one particular 

 year not fewer than one thousand six hundred and three 



