Journals of expeditions to Mongolia from 1919 to 1930
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* just turned our right front wheel and crossed its front tire car. Coltman avoided butting him by a clear pull of driving but we were close to turning over. The crew ran off a right angles if the way we had when going and we had to slow down to getting almost he got well away again and we did not come over into him for our going was getting disagree every miles, Coltman tried again for a shot with his rifle into the bush repeated his maximum of crossing in front of us. The roads for a ragged mass of rocks which we could see cutting the sky two miles away and took us when our own bad goes where we came only just half our aim with him, even that he was well tired by this time, we had already ran down 1/2 mile, but he was by his measures finished. Coltman had given up all hope of killing him with his pistol and was only concerned with getting a shot at any range with our rifles, but the animal was too clever for us. He gained the rocks before we did and stood for an instant silhouetted against the sky. He leaped from the