Journals of expeditions to Mongolia from 1919 to 1930
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stand up in the car and work the movie camera for me, we were bumping about like a ship in a heavy sea. I got tired off 100 feet or more of film before they were out of range and we stopped for a breathing space. The 200 foot roll of film was exhau st and very foolishly I neglected to replace it with a fresh film. We started back to camp as we were getting short of gasoline and my neglect cost me the only fine prints pictures I could ever have obtain- We had not gone two miles on our way back when we saw a wolf standing on a little rise of ground and he was looking at us and as the group was splendid we put on full speed after him. The speed ometer registered 40 but my memory was never at our fastest and the wolf was rapidly losing ground. I got mad that at his highest speed when he was fresh, he was going at 30mi. for hr. He ran like the very devil for about two miles but we were too much for him and were rapidly gaining. Suddenly as we came over a little rise we saw a big herd of cattle coming