KEEPING WARM
The Australian blaokfellow, as the native is called, does not ,nse matches to light his fire. Even now he follows the methods used by his forefathers, generally by the friction of two sticks. One way consists of twirling a hard-pointed stick in a shallow hole in a certain wood, the hole being filled up with dry, powdered hark. The stick is held upright between the palms, : and twirled rapidly by rubbing the palms together. As soon as the finder begins Aq smoke, he holds some finely shredded bark on it and blows it gently, swinging it to and fro in-his hand until it bursts into' flame. Another method is by drawing a thin-edged piece qf hardwood rapidly backwards and forwards in a crack of a dry log. The blacks keep,the fire-stick burning by carrying a sandalwood stick in the hand: the current of air caused by the walking keeping it alight.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12199, 25 July 1925, Page 16
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153KEEPING WARM New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12199, 25 July 1925, Page 16
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