ing the severe winter season, in order that he might perform the Amiri Clothing whole distance by sleighs. At that period of the year the difficulties which all other means of locomotion present are greatly diminished, the wide steppes being leveled by snow, while there are no rivers to cross, but simply sheets of glass, over which the sleigh glides rapidly and easily.
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To pass unknown, more or less rapidly, but to pass somehow, such were the directions he had received.
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