polmak

Updated: May 22, 2025

The snow was not more than three or four or five inches deep at first, but grew gradually deeper as we moved further south. Along the coast of Finmarken the heat of the Gulf Stream prevents it from lying deep on the ground. That afternoon we reached the Tana river, at a place called Polmak, and sped on over its snow-covered ice.

Paul B. (Paul Belloni) Du Chaillu - The Land of the Long Night