SAETER LIFE. 179° 
hearth, a table, and a coarse bed, is the living room; the 
inner one is the dairy, containing the cheeses and the im- 
plements used in the manufacture of them. 
Often several, belonging to different proprietors, form a 
group in a mountain hollow; sometimes you see them by 
the shore of a tarn, Within a few miles from Christiania 
is Frogner Saeter, the property of Herr T. J. Heftye, 
Consul of the United States, and President of the Turdst- 
forening or Tourist Society, an association formed to foster 
a taste in the country for mountain exploration, to facili- 
tate which they have, at considerable expense, had moun- 
tain roads made and improved, and huts erected in remote 
localities in which members of the society may find shelter 
and rest on their extensive tours. 
Frogner Saeter is situated some 1,700 feet above the 
level of the sea. The approaches toit are through a large 
and dark forest by a road made at great expense by the 
owner. From the saeter a magnificent view may be had, 
Another mountain lodge belonging to the same proprietor 
is Sarabraoten, situated in a wild region in a romantic spot, 
overlooking a picturesque lake. His love of wild scenery has 
prompted him to build at both of these places houses like 
those constructed in the olden time; but to see saeter life 
in its reality the traveller must go much further afield. 
In most of the published journals of tourists in Norway 
may be found accounts of visits made by them to saeters, 
An interesting chapter in Du Chaillu’s volume, entitled 
The Land of the Midnight Sun, is devoted to an account of 
a visit which he made for some days to a saeter in the 
Valdal. 
‘In the midst of the mountains, he writes, ‘ Far away 
from the farms, by the shores of lonely lakes and rivers, or 
on the slopes of ridges beyond the limits cf the growth of 
grain, are the saeters. These are mountain houses or huts 
built of logs or of rough stones, where during the summer 
months the people of a farm come to pasture their cattle, 
for in the midst of this great wilderness of rocks there are 
many spots covered with aromatic grass, which gives a rich: 
