to form approximate the monkeys, who have been borne reared in the plains and who have gen- eration of ancestors behind them whose very life depended upon their ability to go out come on two feet, on horses. The birds come & grass & sand have all become the street signs of the desert. In the afternoon if, to the Parma rode out? toward our hunt in the morning & locate an antelope which a camel had reported as dead not far away. I remained at camp & supervised the shooting of the other animals and at 6 o'clock they came galloping back to say there were two antelopes not miles out far away. I saddled Kublai Khan and left with them at once. I rode carefully for twenty minutes & then came slowly out the crest of a rise. There on the edge of a plain about 15 yards away were the antelops quietly feeding. It was impossible for a stalk with a long range shot and I slipped off my horse, & flattened out in the ground. Sometimes my knees, sometimes on my stomach I wormed my way through the grass for 100 yds. The cover made their out of sight short or come into plain view of the antelope. They were so far away that any front sight entirely covered the animal and to make it more difficult they were walking