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their stride, while to right and left as we passed 
through clumps of sage brush or sedge grass, the 
startled hares skipped out of our way, or the 
ground squirrels dived into their holes, giving - 
shrill little shrieks of indignation and kicking up 
spirts of sand behind them. In an amazingly 
short time we had covered the five or six miles 
to the hills, climbing which, we obtained an ex- 
_ tended view of the valleys and plains. Soon we 
spotted a herd of antelopes. These caught sight 
of us almost as soon as we saw them, and splitting 
up they made off at top speed. Warrington, 
Larson and one of the Mongols went off after the 
main herd, while I, with the other Mongol, followed 
two fine-looking bucks, that’ had broken away in 
_another direction. It must be understood that 
the plains are gently undulating, so that hollows 
and low eminences alternate like the great rollers 
of the gently heaving ocean. Presently our two 
antelopes disappeared into one of these hollows. 
At once we urged our ponies to their utmost, and 
by so doing gained considerably upon our quarry 
without alarming them further. When next we 
caught sight of them, they were not more than 
eight hundred yards distant. 
They now cut a semicircle round us and once 
more started off, soon being lost to view in another 
hollow, along which they travelled at an easy 
trot. Taking a parallel hollow, we again pressed 
our ponies, gaining another two hundred yards 
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