Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 139 June to November 1919 . tantand Coltmanopened the throt-tle. The antelopewere five or sixhundred yardsaway, and as thecar leaped forwardthey ranged them-selves into single-file and strung outacross the left the roadat once and head-ed diagonally tow-ard them. Forsome strange rea-son, when a horseor car runs paral-lel with a herd ofantelopes the ani-mals will swing ina complete semi-circle and cross in front of the is also true of some African or not they think they are beingcut off from some more desirable meansof e
Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 139 June to November 1919 . tantand Coltmanopened the throt-tle. The antelopewere five or sixhundred yardsaway, and as thecar leaped forwardthey ranged them-selves into single-file and strung outacross the left the roadat once and head-ed diagonally tow-ard them. Forsome strange rea-son, when a horseor car runs paral-lel with a herd ofantelopes the ani-mals will swing ina complete semi-circle and cross in front of the is also true of some African or not they think they are beingcut off from some more desirable meansof escape, I cannot say, but the factremains that with the open plain onevery side they always try to crossyour bows. I shall never forget the sight of thosemagnificent animals streaming across thedesert! There were at least a thousandof them, and their yellow bodies seemedfairly to skim the earth. I was shoutingin excitement, but Coltman said: Theyre not running yet. Wait tillwe begin to shoot. I could hardly believe my eyes whenI saw the speedometer trembling at. THE LAMAS AT URGA ARE A PICTURESQUE SET thirty-five miles, for the animals wereleaving us almost as though we werestanding still. But then the fatal attrac-tion began to assert itself and the longcolumn bent gradually in our widened the arc of the circleand held the throttle up as far as itwould go. Our speed increased to forty miles and the carbegan to gain be-cause the antelopewere running al-most across ourcourse. They were abouttwo hundred yardsaway when Colt-man shut off thegas and jammedboth brakes, butbefore the car hadstopped they hadgained anotherhundred. I leapedover a pile of bed-ding and came intoaction with Savage high-power as soon asmy feet were onthe ground. Colt-mans .30 Mauserwas already spit-ting fire across thewind - shield fromthe front seat,and at his secondshot an antelopedropped like first two bullets struck the dirt farbehind the rearmost animal, but thethird cau
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