returned to another herd of some more than 600 or 700 yards to the south and had another run as unsuccessful as the first. Then a third, a fourth. The animals would not turn cross our path and kept inevitably turned to run directly away from us after half a mile or so, and the dust cloud which enveloped them made it impossible to distinguish individual antelopes without it was disappointing work and we turned back to the road for more shells irritated & disconsolate. I was exhausted after this excitement of the day and I persuaded her to climb in a cart & let the Maghzi ride her pony. Our horses were both dead tired and I expected only to try to talk with individual animals at a close but the big herds alone & I was almost seven o'clock when the Maghzi & I rode away from the road toward the west, within half a mile we saw a mass of dark spots, dark against the descending sun, and with my glasses I saw that they were antelopes. The first herd, of probably 2000, if I had driven to the north but her were at least 1000 more. It seemed as do all the antelopes in Maghribah had gathered in the plain for our benefit. This time we tried our device in order to save our horses. Finding