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(1877) [MARC] Author: W. Mattieu Williams
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The ladies had no difficulty in reaching this
point.

There is a great deal of venison hereabouts,
and many reindeer skins offered for sale. The
legal season for stalking and shooting the wild
reindeer commences on August 1st.

As the Romsdal is a deep gully, cutting through
the midst of the highest mountains and the most
extensive snow and ice fields of Norway, it
naturally becomes the head-quarters of reindeer
hunters. It appears from what I can learn that
the wild reindeer has increased of late, and that
this increase is due to the strict enforcement of
fence time, which extends from April 1st to
August 1st in this district, and from October 1st
to August 1st in the Shrieval district, north of
Osterdal. This is much farther north.

Reindeer hunting is a respectable *sport, very
different from shooting barn-door pheasants that
have been hatched by hens in coops, and fed
by hand until the poultry-yard sportsmen come
from town to have them driven to their
gun-muzzles at a battue. We met several genuine
sportsmen who had come to Norway mainly for
the reindeer stalking. No beaters are employed
in this chase. A native stalker, who knows the
ground and the habits of the deer, may be en-

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