It was agreed that, if they charged, they should be allowed to come within forty feet before we fired, thus giving the picture machine time to get a good record.

The situation was intense beyond description, and seconds seemed hours.

When they started trotting toward us we thought the fatal moment had come, but instead of continuing the "charge," they swung around and trotted swiftly off in an opposite direction.

As far as we could see them they trotted swiftly and with the lightness of deer, sometimes zigzagging their course, but always away from us.

The charge had failed in spite of all our efforts to provoke it.