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some thirty miles distant, he invited us to visit their 
domain, assuring us that elk might there be hunted 
more favourably than in our own dense forests of Muru. 
Our hunter, Johannes Norbak, knowing the ground and 
confirming their statement, I set out thither at once, and 
“PICOIDES TUIDACTYLUS.” 
(Only three toes, but he needs no more.) 
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before nightfall had reached a sseter on the fringe of 
the fjeld. In this hurried start due attention had not 
been paid to provisions ; hence we were reduced that 
night to coffee and rye-bread—-bad fare for hard work. 
At three o’clock next morning, when we turned out, 
