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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.