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employment to the Bonder to snare and trap the game 

 for the markets; for it is seldom that they shoot 

 them. 



In 1859, a friend of mine was shooting in the neigh- 

 bourhood of Maristuen on the Fille Fjeld, than which 

 no better grouse-ground can well be imagined, and 

 though he had two good dogs with him, yet never 

 a feather did he see. 



In the above remarks I am of course only alluding 

 to the feathered game. As regards reindeer hunting, 

 which is par excellence as far as shooting is con- 

 cerned, tlie sport of the country, the matter is totally 

 different. But even on this I would remark that 

 whoever wishes to have good sport it must be made his 

 whole and sole object ; everything else must give way 

 to it, and the sportsman must not be led here and there 

 by tempting offers of a bear, or an elk-deer, &c. And 

 further, whether reindeer hunting will repay the time 

 and labour devoted to it depends principally on a man's 

 powers of endurance, physical and moral. And I 

 would strenuously advise no one to set out on a 

 reindeer expedition who cannot undergo a large amount 

 of bodily fatigue, and endure a still larger amount 

 of disappointment. 



Fortified, however, with strength of body and 

 strength of mind, determined not to be put out of 

 tune by poor accommodation, and still poorer fare, 



