The snowstorm occasionally halted and fell, concealing the tracks of their raid and secretly harboring the looming death. When the reindeer sled dashed out of the central hills of the peninsula and reached the plains along the western coast, the northward speed suddenly increased!
Every morning at dawn, the herd would set off northward, stopping and going along the cold coast until dusk, capable of covering nearly two hundred miles in a day. The cavalry of four hundred sleds, heading north for just seven days, had already traveled a thousand miles on the peninsula.
