Journals of expeditions to Mongolia from 1919 to 1930
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Suddenly four splendid antelope detached themselves from the main herd and started across the valley toward the right we were in... when we saw that they were really well started in our direction we threw ourselves into the long grass and dashed forward I cut them off. Almost instantly the antelope increased their speed and simply flew up the hill slope. I yelped a frantic 'valleto' to Yvette and jerked with the reins on Kurrai Khan's neck. He already saws the antelope and when I gathern his head he flattegrd out neck off like a bullet. I could feel his great muscles working between my knees but otherwise there seemed hardly a motion of his body in the long smooth reeds. Standing up in my stirrups I watched for the leader marked to Yvette who was putting her distance as lightly as a butterfly. Her hat was gone, then hair streaming like a feather of thick of feathers and wore in every drag of his body and she was running me a close second, hardly thirty feet behind. I saw a warm three - in front of me but it came on at a black another green patch which