 | Sir William Edward Parry - 1828 - 350 Seiten
...sparks are struck into a little leathern case, containing moss well dried and rubbed between the hands. If this tinder does not readily catch, a small quantity...of oiled wick being applied, it soon bursts into a flame, the whole process having occupied perhaps two or three minutes. Among the articles in their... | |
 | 1922 - 1000 Seiten
...sparks are struck into a little leather case, containing moss well dried and rubbed between the hands. If this tinder does not readily catch, a small quantity...of oiled wick being applied, it soon bursts into a flame, the whole process having occupied perhaps two or three minutes."2 " The Copper Eskimos use the... | |
 | Charles Tomlinson - 1846 - 190 Seiten
...sparks are struck into a little leathern case, containing moss well-dried, and rubbed between the hands. If this tinder does not readily catch, a small quantity...above the moss. As soon as a spark has caught, it is generally blown till the fire has spread an inch around, when the pointed end of a piece of oiled wick... | |
 | Charles Tomlinson - 1860 - 338 Seiten
...sparks are struck into a little leathern case, containing moss well dried, and rubbed between the hands. If this tinder does not readily catch, a small quantity...above the moss. As soon as a spark has caught, it is generally blown till the fire has spread an inch around, when the pointed end of a piece of oiled wick... | |
 | Charles Tomlinson - 1872 - 392 Seiten
...sparks are struck into a little leathern case, containing moss well dried, and rubbed between the hands. If this tinder does not readily catch, a small quantity...of oiled wick being applied, it soon bursts into a flame, the whole process having occupied perhaps two or three minutes. The food of the Esquimaux is... | |
 | William Henry Giles Kingston - 1884 - 416 Seiten
...to serve as tinder. The sparks are struck from two lumps of iron pyrites ; and as soon as the tinder has caught, it is gently blown till the fire has spread...of oiled wick being applied, it soon bursts into a flame, the whole process occupying a couple of minutes. While speaking of their domestic habits, I... | |
 | Zelia Nuttall - 1904 - 512 Seiten
...are struck into a little leathern case . . . containing moss well dried and rubbed between the hands. If this tinder does not readily catch, a small quantity...has spread an inch around, when the pointed end of a 'Hough. Fire making ApparatiiH in the I'. S. National Museum. Smithsonian Report, USS Museum, ls«j,... | |
 | 1904 - 522 Seiten
...are struck into a little leathern case . . . containing moss well dried and rubbed between the hands. If this tinder does not readily catch, a small quantity...has spread an inch around, when the pointed end of a 1 ITouich. Fire. muting Apparatus in the I'. S. National Museum. Smithsonian Report, VSS Museum, Vf8,... | |
 | Alice Cunningham Fletcher - 1904 - 582 Seiten
...are struck into a little leathern case . . . containing moss well dried and rubbed between the hands. If this tinder does not readily catch, a small quantity...seed of the ground willow is laid above the moss. As soou as a spark has caught it is gently blown till the fire has spread an inch around, when the pointed... | |
 | 1916 - 840 Seiten
...little leathern case (see tig. -J5, pi. LXXIV) containing moss well dried and rubbed between the hands. If this tinder does not readily catch, a small quantity...spark has caught it is gently blown till the fire l,as spread an inch around, when the pointed end of a piece of wick being applied, it soon bursts into... | |
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Esquimaux use two lumps of common iron pyrites, from which sparks are struck into a little leathern case, containing moss well dried and rubbed between the hands. If this tinder does not readily catch, a small quantity of the white floss of the seed of... 
