up and too
late to take pictures; therefore, the photography was postponed
until the next day, and we ran over toward a herd of antelope which
was just visible on the sky line. When each of us had killed an
animal, the opinion was unanimous that we had enough. I got mine on
the first chase and thenceforth employed my time in making
observations on the antelope's speed.

Time after time the car reached forty miles an hour, but with an
even start the gazelles could swing about in front and "cross our
bows." One of the antelope had a front leg broken just below the
knee, and gave us a hard chase with the car going at thirty-five
miles an hour. I estimated that even in its crippled condition the
animal was traveling at a rate of _not less than twenty-five miles
an hour_.

My field notes tell of a similar experience with the last gazelle
which Mac killed late in the afternoon. ". . . We ran toward
another group of antelope standing on the summit of a long land
swell. There were fourteen in this herd and as the car neared them
they trotted about with heads up, evidently trying to decide what
species of plains animal we represented. The sun had just set, and I
shall never forget the picture which they made, their graceful
figures showing in black silhouettes against the rose glow of the
evening sky. There was one buck among them and they seemed very
nervous. When the men leaped out to shoot we were fully two hundred
and fifty yards away, but at his third shot Mac dropped the buck. It
was up again and off before the motor started in pursuit and,
although running apart from the herd, it was only a short distance
behind the others. Evidently the right foreleg was broken but with
the car traveling at twenty-five miles an hour it was still drawing
ahead. The going was not good and we ran for two miles without
gaining an inch; then we came to a bit of smooth plain and the motor
shot ahead at thirty-five miles an hour. We gained slowly and, when
about one hundred yards away, I leaped out and fired at the animal
breaking the other foreleg low down on the left side. Even with two
legs injured it still traveled at a rate of fifteen miles, and a
third shot was required to finish the unfortunate business. We found
that both limbs were broken below the knee, and that the animal had
been running on the stumps."

CHAPTER V

ANTELOPE MOVIE STARS

It was eight o'clock before we finished breakfast in the morning,
but we did not wi