Journals of expeditions to Mongolia from 1919 to 1930
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I do not get near enough to test the range is always long (from 200 to 400 yards) and at a target which is simply flying. So the dangers are all in favor of the antelope except for the modern long range rifle. That helps to tell away the score. But from the standpoint of pure sport, skill, and excitement there is nothing to equal it in my opinion. First, it has the joy of feeling a good horse under [illegible] if the pony really enters into the hunt as Kibler Khan does, it is half the game. The danger from the wild side adds more than delights, and the wild thrill of excitement when one doeses the reins (is fairly off is beyond words to describe. It must be something like an old time cavalry charge when we rode down the enemy at full gallop. Three miles down the road we found water a mile back in the plain, it was a deep well and we camped some distance from it over more than marsh threes. There were a half dozen quarts scattered on the plain and their inhabitants ordered to see us during the day. A picturesque clothed fellow would ride up at a gallop, slide off his horse, lather it almost with [illegible] and walk up a tent, with a "sai" he would squat in the ground and merely offer his small trap.