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fact that the thirteen men from Gambo possessed the 

 legal right to kill sixty-five deer. In connection with 

 this we recalled the bands of Norwegian hunters, who 

 are each allowed to kill three reindeer, and who club 

 their rights and used to pursue the few surviving herds 

 of the Dovrefjeld with Krag-Jorgensen repeating rifles, 

 opening fire at immense ranges and firing volley after 

 volley when the deer ran together, and continuing to 

 shoot until the herd had fled out of sight. This state of 

 affairs has, however, recently been rectified in Norway 

 by the passing of a law which forbids the use of a 

 repeating rifle against reindeer, and further regulates 

 the bore of the single-cartridge weapon which is 

 permitted. The second part of this law rules out the 

 Krag-Jorgensen and other small-bore rifles. 



Of course I do not for a moment suggest that the 

 Gambo party would, even if they could, have pressed to 

 its limit their privilege of shooting sixty-five caribou 

 among them ; the consideration alone of being so far 

 from the railroad would have prevented this, as it 

 would have been impossible to handle such an amount 

 of meat without some means of transit other than 

 men's backs. But, seeing the harm that may quite 

 legally be done by such large parties, I think a law 

 prohibiting the hunting of caribou by a company of 

 greater strength than six members may some day be 

 worth the consideration of those in power in our oldest 

 colony. 



Late that same afternoon, as we were bound for 

 camp by way of the head of Island Pond, we saw a 

 good-sized stag, which we did not disturb, and not long 

 afterwards we heard some deer moving in the water. 

 Creeping down, we soon came in sight of two does, one 



