ABSTRACT
IN northern lands the power of frost and falls of snow are generally so severe, and the weather with its thick, sudden mists, which darken the air, so dreadful, that travellers cannot even tell whether a person they meet at close quarters is friend or foe, nor can they avoid him. Every kind of difficulty is presented in situations where on each side either lofty precipices overhang them or packed snow stands up so high that people carrying loads can hardly clear each other by going either to right or left. Nevertheless, because there is rarely any desirable means of circumventing the cliffs themselves, with reciprocal efforts they loosen the snow in front of the halted pack-animals, and then draw their upturned sledges over it, so that they can complete their intended journey. 1 They do this as quickly as if they were being impelled by a swift conflagration and the rapid need to avert a grievous danger, in case, if there is a longer interval, the ways and woods are choked up by a sudden snowfall and frost so that roads and fields can scarcely be distinguished.
Frost Snow
They cannot distinguish friend or foe Difficulty of journeys
An answer
Ways are engulfed by snow
