26 MY SPORTING HOLIDAYS 



The paper rights, therefore, did not necessarily bear 

 their proper relation to the actual sporting value of 

 Hitteren farms. 



In that year of our first visit (1872) Hitteren was 

 full of English sportsmen. The best forest on the 

 south-east side, opposite the mainland, known as the 

 Havn and Aune ground, was then rented by c Sixty - 

 one ' a well-known veteran Anglo-Norwegian sports- 

 man and former correspondent of the Field newspaper 

 who was out that year with an equally veteran friend. 

 Marching with Havn Forest on the north was the 

 smaller farm or 'forest' of Kaldkloven, then owned 

 by Captain W. Congreve, Chief Constable of Stafford, 

 who was also out with a party, and with whom I 

 then commenced a friendship that lasted for many 

 subsequent years, until his death in 1899. Kaldkloven 

 was comparatively small in extent, but possessed some 

 excellent well-wooded deer-ground ; and it also con- 

 tained some of the best sea-trout-fishing in the island, 

 in a chain of lakes connected by a small river with 

 the fjord. On the west of Havn Forest marched the 

 Forest of Strom, facing the North Sea, the next best 

 stalking-ground to that of Havn and Aune. This 

 forest was tenanted that same year by the well-known 

 sportsman and big-game hunter, E. N. Buxton, whom I 

 then had the pleasure of meeting for the first time. 

 With him were Andrew Johnston and his wife, also 

 Bertram Buxton, his cousin whom I accompanied 

 later that autumn reindeer- stalking on the Dovre 

 Fjeld and Dr. Jex Blake and his daughter. 



The only remaining Hitteren forest worthy of the 

 name was the extreme south-west portion, then 

 tenanted by General Blackwell and F. Pigou, separated 

 from the other forests I have mentioned by a piece of 



