التاريخ اليميني 34.3

34.3

He marched at the end of autumn, trusting in the mild weather in the south, but it happened, as he pushed into those lands, that snows fell the like of which had never been known before; they blocked the passes of those mountains, levelled valley floors and hills, and the face of the air grew so grim that it affected hooves and camels' feet, let alone bare heads and limbs. The highways were lost, so that right could not be told from left, nor front from back. Circumstances forced him to turn back until God should permit setting out a second time; for everything there is a fixed limit and an extended term.