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Further northwards is the EXINGDAL ELY : it is a 

 very likely-looking stream. There is also another river 

 a little above this running out at Mo. In both of these 

 I believe fair fishing may be had. 



Some of the best reindeer ground is to be found in 

 the eastern parts of this Amt. The neighbourhood of 

 Vikor, on the Hardanger Fjord, at Graven, Ulvik, 

 Kinservik, and on the large and extensive range of 

 mountains towards Hallingdal and Nunimedal, and to 

 the east of Vossevangen, will be found usually to abound 

 with these animals. Eed deer are found on some of 

 the islands off the coast. Ryper, too, are generally 

 plentiful. As the forests in this Amt are comparatively 

 of small dimensions, black game and capercalzie are not 

 so numerous as elsewhere. Of elks, I believe there are 

 none. The average number of bears annually killed is 

 small, being only 1 14 . 



I had always been at a loss to understand why the 

 number of bears killed annually in this Amt was so 

 small ; but I have been given to understand, on good 

 authority, that the smallness of the returns must not in 

 this case be taken as any evidence of their scarcity. 

 "On the contrary," writes my informant, "I am 

 inclined to think that in some parts of the Hardanger 

 country, they are more numerous than in any other 

 part of Norway. The reason is, that the peasants here 

 know nothing at all about bear-hunting, and, in fact, 



