TEN YEARS' WILD SPORTS 

 FOREIGN LANDS; 



OR, TRAVELS IN THE EIGHTIES. 



SPOET AND TEAVEL IN NOEWAY. 



Salmon Fishing- at Baeverdal Sea-fishing- Red Deer still-hunting on the 

 Island of Hitteren A lucky Stag Another Misadventure Mosquitoes 

 Trout Fishing on the Flats How we sent Venison home Small- 

 game Shooting Securing a Hind under Difficulties Deer on the Island 

 of Tusteren An Adventure in Trondhjem. 



ON arrival at Christiansund we exchanged ourselves 

 and belongings from the good ship Tasso into a steam- 

 launch called Lincoln, which we had hired for 18 kr. 

 to take us to a river called the Baeverdal, which was 

 reached late in. the evening after a few hours' steam- 

 ing, on the 25th of July. I had just left Sandhurst 

 and expected to be " gazetted" in October and receive 

 Her Majesty's Commission in a line battalion. Be- 

 sides hoping to catch a good many salmon we had also 

 undertaken, on behalf of a friend, to endeavour to 

 settle a long-standing dispute between him and some 

 of the native proprietors of the river over an old fish- 

 ing contract. The fir-clad mountains were mirrored 

 in the still waters of the little fiord, which became 

 gradually more contracted as we proceeded. After 

 we had continued blowing our whistle for some time 

 we at length succeeded in attracting attention, and 

 a Norwegian put off from shore in a diminutive boat 



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