SPORT AND TRAVEL IN NORWAY. 



surgical operations of extracting bits of coal from his 

 posterior person. At this time of year the belling of 

 the stags was continuous. By means of " calling " or 

 imitating the sound they make, one of the largest 

 stags ever shot on the island had been obtained (I 

 believe by my friend, Admiral W. E. Kennedy). Num- 

 bers of deer had died during the preceding winter 

 (1880) and their carcases were constantly found on 

 our shooting ground, but especially on the east coast 

 of the island. 



Not knowing how to occupy my time till the next 

 steamer sailed, I took a boat and rowed over to the 

 proprietor of the island of Margaree, whom I found 

 employed in frothing-up in a tub the blood of a cow 

 they were killing, for the purpose of making cakes. 

 He wanted 10 kr. to beat the island for us in search of 

 grouse or ryper, which extortionate demand I refused, 

 but sent " Ferguson " ashore to make inquiries, who 

 presently came back and reported that such a thing as 

 a ryper had hardly ever been seen on the whole 

 island. 



On my way to England I stayed three days on 

 Tusteren. On the first day no one could be got to 

 go with me, as they said the last Englishman walked 

 so fast that he had even tired out the blacksmith. On 

 the third day, after driving a deep-wooded valley 

 where we had heard a stag belling and seen tracks in the 

 snow, and which being sunless was unbearably cold, 

 nine stags were reported to have gone over the fyeld. 

 This I hardly credited, as we had beaten the whole 



