THE GUN AT HOME AND ABROAD 
June 25, 26 and 27, 1856. It took place at the northern end of the 
great Dalecarlian Lake Siljan, in the extensive forests along the 
Vanan, a tributary of the Yester Dal River; 4,000 men from the 
parishes of Mera, Sollero, Elfdal, and Venjan formed the driving 
line, which , with the wings, extended over a distance of sixty kilometres . 
On the two nights which intervened halts were made and huge fires 
were lit in order to prevent the wild animals from breaking back, 
and not until late on the third day was the place reached where the 
rifles were stationed. Twenty -three bears, nine elk, three wolves, 
and a lynx were killed, a result which was considered highly satis- 
factory. 
“ In September, 1737, a great skall was carried out by order of 
the King, in the parish of Vahla, Vestmanland, under the direction 
of Hofjagermastare Andreas Schonberg. It lasted four days, and 
besides many hares and game birds, six large bears, twelve elk, 
three wolves, three lynxes, and a fox were killed. Apart from Royal 
personages, to whose exploits the artificial element is generally a 
main contributory, Hofjagmastare Falk, Lloyd, and the Finnish officer, 
Major Berndt Hook (who died within the three last years) have 
probably accounted individually for more bears in Northern Europe 
than any other sportsmen of late years. The two first-named shot 
about 100 apiece to their own rifles, and the last, who did most of 
his hunting in the wilds of Russian Karelia, at least as many, besides 
being present at the death of quite double that number. In the fourth 
number for 1895 of the Finnish magazine ‘Tidskrift for Jagare och 
Fiskere,’ it is stated that quite recently the well-known sportsman, 
Forstmastare Gosta Wasastjerna, had killed twenty-six bears in the 
eastern forests of Finland, from which it would appear that there was 
a fair stock of these animals in those parts. 
“ Owing to the character of the country, bears, although nowadays 
far from plentiful, are more numerous in Norway than in the sister 
kingdom, and between fifty and sixty are annually killed there. At 
one time they must have been undoubtedly of very frequent occur- 
rence, and inhabited districts from which they have long since disap- 
peared. Thus, according to the old writer, Peder Clausson Frus, one 
man killed fifteen of them in a single winter, about the year 1560, with 
a steel bow, in the Lister country, and was himself killed by the six- 
teenth; while, curiously enough, he states that bears were more plenti- 
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