ELK-HUNTING IN INDEROEN. 
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elks are more numerous; but nowhere are bigger heads 
obtained than among the woods of this sea-girt penin¬ 
sula—heads both of many spears, and also those of 
fewer points, but of the massive “ gnarley ” type. The 
elks of Inderoen, though large, are both scarce and shy, 
being ever harassed by lawless Lapp hunters from the 
coast. These facts we understood beforehand; and I 
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sheilings out here, and wood-cutters by the streams ; 
but by September these are deserted, and the whole 
wild region left uninhabited. 
The feature of Furudal, which had attracted us to 
this corner of Inderoen, was that the elks were reputed 
large. There are forests in the Nordenfjeldske where 
