222 KALM'S ENGLAND. 



[T. I. p. 223.J Hjortars foda och nytta, &c. 



Deer's food and use, &c. 



We saw a very large number of deer, Hjortar, both 

 large and small, which were kept in this park. Some few 

 of them were snow-white, but the greater number of them 

 were for the most part of a brownish grey or fawn colour 

 similar to hares, Harar. A man who accompanied us, 

 assured us that there were over 1,000 head, stycken, 

 now kept here, and which we had no difficulty in believ- 

 ing, in view of this, that we saw large herds, hopar, of 

 them whenever we went in the park. In several places 

 there lay cut down and laid for the deer, fresh young 

 beeches, ashes, and hawthorn, from which they had 

 gnawed, gnagit, the bark, so that these trees were now 

 quite without bark. It was the ash, however, which of 

 all trees was most laid for them, mast lagd for dem, 

 and from which they gnawed most bark. These barked, 

 afskalade, trees, after they had become dry, were an 

 excellent fuel. 



In one place and another in the park there was a 

 shed, hus, erected, which commonly consisted of a roof 

 on posts under the middle of which there ran a long 

 rack, hack, made of two hurdles which were tied 

 together by their lower sides, so that the hay could be 

 laid between them. Here the deer had their refuge in 

 bad weather and got their fodder, foda, from the hay 

 which was there spread for them in the racks, uti 

 hackar. In the summer they got their fodder from the 

 grass in the park, but in the winter from the hay which 

 had with this object been carried in the summer into 

 lathes, lador, of which there were several here in the 

 park. It is well known that the male deer, hjort- 

 hanarna, or stags, have horns, but the hinds, honarna, 

 have not, and that the stags shed their horns once a 

 year, when new ones grow instead. 



