Besides, there are your clothes to buy; and be sure and provide yourself with a good fur-lined travelling cloak.

You will need it, I can assure you.
"Your best course will be to travel through Saint Poelten and Ips, cross the river at once, and go over the mountains by the road through Freystadt to Budweis.

It is by far the most level road from here, though a good deal longer than the one through Horn.

But there is snow in the air, and I think that we shall have a heavy downfall, and you may well find the defiles by the Horn road blocked by snow; whereas by Freystadt you are not likely to find any difficulty, and most of the road is perfectly flat.".