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taining about fifty animals, and ran toward it as fast 

 as the car could travel. The herd divided when we 

 were still several hundred yards away, but the larger 

 part gave promise of swinging across our path. The 

 ground was thinly covered with short bunch grass, and 

 when we reached a speed of thirty-five miles an hour 

 the car was bounding and leaping over the tussocks 

 like a ship in a heavy gale. I tried to stand, but after 

 twice being almost pitched out bodily I gave it up and 

 operated the camera by kneeling on the rear seat. 

 Mac helped anchor me by sitting on my left leg, and 

 we got one hundred feet of film from the first herd. 

 Races with three other groups gave us two hundred 

 feet more, and as the gasoline in our tank was alarm- 

 ingly depleted we turned back toward camp. 



Unfortunately I did not reload the camera with a 

 fresh roll of film and thereby missed one of the most 

 unusual and interesting pictures which ever could be 

 obtained upon the plains. The tents were already in 

 sight when a wolf suddenly appeared on the crest of 

 a grassy knoll. He looked at us for a moment and 

 then set off at an easy lope. The temptation was too 

 great to be resisted even though there was a strong 

 possibility that we might be stalled in the desert with 

 no gas. 



The ground was smooth and hard, and our speed- 

 ometer showed forty miles an hour. We soon began 

 to gain, but for three miles he gave us a splendid race. 

 Suddenly, as we came over a low hill, we saw an enor- 

 mous herd of antelope directly in front of us. They 



