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gaged at Jerkin, Dombaas, Kongsvold, and other
stations at one dollar per day or thereabouts. It
is possible even to do without this amount of aid,
but I should not recommend anybody to attempt
deer-stalking alone, for the same reasons that I
advise them not to repeat my lonely fjeld walks
of 185G. A sprained ankle, a broken leg, or
other accident or ailment, but slight in itself,
might, when thus beyond the reach of help, be
fatal.
Pluck, patience, self-control, endurance of
hardship, and the general qualities of true manhood
are demanded of the wild reindeer hunter. Two
or three weeks may be spent in the chase, with
the game more or less in view all the time, before
the opportunity of a shot is obtained. The
huntsman is living all the while on the wild moorland
fjeld, and more or less upon the snow, feeding
upon what lie carries plus occasional windfalls of
tiadbrod and draughts of milk at solitary saeters.
He sleeps in huts or on the rocks, always keeping
hidden and to leeward of the game ; as the scent
of a man to windward is detected by the deer
long before he comes within gunshot.
I was told of several cases where three or four
deer were thus followed for several days, when
at last, just as the sportsman had crept within
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