In the meantime some of the antelopes and the mountain sheep began looking at us.
"Now they will soon begin to cross our trail," laughed the Mongol; "very funny beasts.

Sometimes the antelopes course for miles in their endeavor to outrun and cross in front of our horses and then, when they have done so, go loping quietly off." I had already seen this strategy of the antelopes and I decided to make use of it for the purpose of the hunt.

We organized our chase in the following manner.

We let one Mongol with the pack camel proceed as we had been traveling and the other three of us spread out like a fan headed toward the herd on the right of our true course.

The herd stopped and looked about puzzled, for their etiquette required that they should cross the path of all four of these riders at once.