sh to begin the motion picture photography until
the sun was high enough above the horizon to give us a clear field
for work. Charles and I rigged the tripod firmly in the _tonneau_ of
one of the cars. Mrs. Mac and Wang, a Chinese driver, were in the
front seat, while Yvette and I squeezed in beside the camera. The
Coltmans, Mac, and Owen occupied the other motor. We found a herd of
antelope within a mile of camp and they paraded in beautiful
formation as the car approached. It would have made a splendid
picture, but although the two automobiles were of the same make,
there was a vast difference in their speed and it was soon evident
that we could not keep pace with the other motor. After two or three
ineffectual attempts we roped the camera in the most powerful car,
the three men came in with me, and the women transferred to Wang's
machine.

The last herd of antelope had disappeared over a long hill, and when
we reached the summit we saw that they had separated into four
groups and scattered about on the plains below us. We selected the
largest, containing about fifty animals, and ran toward it as fast
as the car could travel. The herd divided when we were still several
hundred yards away, but the larger part gave promise of swinging
across our path. The ground was thinly covered with short bunch
grass, and when we reached a speed of thirty-five miles an hour the
car was bounding and leaping over the tussocks like a ship in a
heavy gale. I tried to stand, but after twice being almost pitched
out bodily I gave it up and operated the camera by kneeling on the
rear seat. Mac helped anchor me by sitting on my left leg, and we
got one hundred feet of film from the first herd. Races with three
other groups gave us two hundred feet more, and as the gasoline in
our tank was alarmingly depleted we turned back toward camp.

Unfortunately I did not reload the camera with a fresh roll of film
and thereby missed one of the most unusual and interesting pictures
which ever could be obtained upon the plains. The tents were already
in sight when a wolf suddenly appeared on the crest of a grassy
knoll. He looked at us for a moment and then set off at an easy
lope. The temptation was too great to be resisted even though there
was a strong possibility that we might be stalled in the desert with
no gas.

The ground was smooth and hard, and our speedometer showed forty
miles an hour. We soon began to gain, but for three miles he gave us