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It was a chasse-neige a snowdrift. In an instant the somber sky was confounded with the sea of snow which the wind raised up from the earth. Every thing was indistinguishable. "Woe, to us! my lord," cried the coachman, "it is a whirlwind of snow!" I put my head out of the kibitka darkness and storm. The wind blew with an expression so ferocious that it seemed a living creature.
He ascribes his malady to "a terrible and deleterious blast of wind called the 'chasse-neige, which travels by the course of the Dnieper, and perhaps comes from the shores of the Black Sea," and which managed to penetrate to him, though he was wrapped up with furs so that no spot seemed left for the outside air to reach.
My coachman explained to me that this little cloud foretold a chasse-neige a snowdrift. I had heard of the drifting snows of this region, and I know that at times, storms swallowed up whole caravans. Saveliitch agreed with the coachman, and advised our return. But to me the wind did not seem very strong. I hoped to arrive in time for the next relay of horses.
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