Journals of expeditions to Mongolia from 1919 to 1930
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antelope was up & off before we got into the car. It was running apart from the herd but only a short distance behind the others. Evidently its front leg was broken, because with the car going at 25 miles per hour it was still drawing ahead. We struck a bit through green and ran for two miles at 25 miles per hr. Finally we came to a smooth plain & then sped right up to 35 miles. We gained slowly & when about 1 or 2g's away it jumped out and fled at the critical breaking a hind leg on the opposite side. They could see now that it was another one, much to our disgust, & even with two eeps running she still made about 15 mi per hour. A third shot failed her. The antelope deer are exceedingly difficult to distinguish from the bucks for when pointed cars are carried straight up & back & give exactly the ap- pearance of horns when one is some distance away. We came back & struck south- my the kents at John Wilcock and