334 APPENDIX. 



KEINDEER HUNTING. (p. 94.) 



A friend of mine who has lately returned from Norway gives 

 me a -very poor account of reindeer-hunting. The fact is, the 

 Bonder now hunt themselves, and may be seen by scores scour- 

 ing the fjelds in all directions, even in the most remote corners. 



One day, he tells me, he saw a herd cf nine hinds and calves 

 at a distance of about four English miles high up on the " snee- 

 fonds " of the Vaage Fjelds ; but, as it was late in the evening, he 

 was reluctantly obliged to decline stalking them. The following 

 morning he purposed going after them, but found himself fore- 

 stalled by a party of native hunters from Lorn. " I grieve to find," 

 he adds, " that this sport is now utterly destroyed everywhere by 

 the natives. When first I hunted in the Vaage mountains, some 

 years ago, it was a rarity to find a Norwegian who ever came up 

 so far to hunt. Now there are dozens ! It seems to be the same 

 in the Osterdalen and Eeendalen districts. There were also about 

 thirty of these fellows hunting on the Eundene this year. When 

 I was there, in 1858, there were not more than two. Therefore 

 good-bye, I fear, for the future, to anything like real sport in 

 the way of reindeer hunting, except it were possible to find some 

 remote spot beyond the region of Saeters or B5nder, and this, I 

 fear, is scarcely to be found." 



THE END. 



