A simply moving figures might have started them enough to put them on the alert. When we had passed beyond their sight I shook out the reins on “Kublai Kahn’s” neck and we swung around at full gallop under the protection of the hill crest. In a short time we had reached a point where I could crawl over the hill top for a look with the glasses, but the antelope were nowhere in sight. We galloped on for a quarter of a mile and leaving [illegible] behind the horses I went over the summit with hill, leaving my rifle in its scabbard. It was fatal mistake for it suddenly came upon the animals directly between me 120 yards away. I dropped flat to the ground and flattened out with the grass but the animals must have seen me warning my way back into the horses for when I next came on the hill top they had moved a hundred yards and partly the valley and every head was in my direction. When I rose to my knees it shot they were off like a flash of yellow light across the valley. I fired three times but did not get the range for they were already 400 yes away. The herd turned on the opposite hill side and slowed down started up the valley. I went back to the horses very much disgusted and if I watched them rather carefully.