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LAPP COURIERS WITH THE MAIL BEFORE A BARRIER OF THE LONE WHITE NORTH
| During the long months when the White Sea is in the frozen grip of winter, the ship gives place to the sleigh. From ice-bound Archangel fur-clad Laplanders set out over the congealed waters with the post for Murmansk, a town far over the mountains of the Kola Peninsula on an arm of the Arctic. The snow that is seen lying on the steep slopes, filling up cranny and crevice, gives a false effect of smoothness |