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been explored by any traveller. It is a wild and 

 thinly-inhabited district, and the game is consequently 

 but little disturbed. Bears seem to be pretty numerous 

 in parts, and elks also. I think Grammel Lordalen, on 

 the Loren Elv, a tributary of the Swedish Vestre Dal 

 Elv, would be the best head-quarters. Tolerable ac- 

 commodation is to be had at Eric Lordalens, and a 

 capital bear-hunter, Johann Persen, lives close by. 

 There were a great many wild ducks on the Loren Elv, 

 between Grammel and Ny Lordalen. I was greatly 

 pleased with the boats on the Loren, and the admirable 

 way in which they are managed. The boats are very 

 similar in form to some of the North American canoes ; 

 and I thought that Eric and his nephew handled their 

 poles almost as cleverly in the rapids as my old friends 

 in New Brunswick used to do among those of the 

 Nessissiquit. In some parts of this eastern forest 

 district I found black game very abundant, particularly 

 on the eastern side of the Osen So ; it was, however, 

 no easy matter to get shots at them." 



Bears are tolerably numerous. In 1861, an officer 

 in the Norwegian army, and an ardent sportsman, had 

 the unprecedented good luck of shooting three bears in 

 one day in Osterdalen. The average number killed 

 is 12^5 per annum. 



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