118 SPORT IN NORWAY. 



Eidsvold, about forty-two miles from Christiania, and 

 in many parts of Hedemarken. The engineer of the 

 new railway from from Stor-Hamar (half-way up the 

 Miosen lake) to Grundsaet, told me that one of the 

 first trains they ran on that line nearly proved the 

 death of a magnificent elk. Somehow or other it had 

 got on the line as the train was coming up, and being 

 unused to the strange appearance "of a great long 

 thing with a green and red head puffing and skreeking 

 like any think," as the Yorkshireman said, it stood as if 

 entranced to gaze on the strange phenomenon ; and 

 had not the engine-driver pulled up in time, it would 

 in all probability have been run over. 



Last autumn, 1862, two elk-deer astonished us in 

 Christiania by making their appearance in the suburbs of 

 the town. They had swum over a branch of the fjord, 

 and had found their way into a man's kitchen-garden, 

 much to the alarm of sundry old women and several 

 little children. One of them ultimately got killed, 

 I regretted to hear. 



Before proceeding to speak of their habits, manner 

 of living, &c., I would strongly recommend any Eng- 

 lish sportsman who feels desirous of having an elk- 

 hunt to make a note of the following hints. By bearing 

 them in mind he may stand a good chance of success. 

 Let him then go by train from Christiania to Lille 

 Strom, half an hour's trip, and from thence take the 



