 | Northcote Whitridge Thomas - 1906 - 342 Seiten
...one end, and pressing it upon the other, turn it nimbly by holding it between both their hands, as we do a chocolate mill, often shifting their hands up...this method they get fire in less than two minutes.' In other cases two similar thin wands are used, but the method is the same. A European would entirely... | |
 | A. Waddingham Seers - 1922 - 216 Seiten
...one end, and pressing it upon the other turn it nimbly by holding it between both their hands, as we do a chocolate mill, often shifting their hands up...this method they get fire in less than two minutes." The European reader who tries to follow out these directions will take longer. Prehistoric man in Europe... | |
 | A. Waddingham Seers - 1922 - 216 Seiten
...one end, and pressing it upon the other turn it nimbly by holding it between both their hands, as we do a chocolate mill, often shifting their hands up...this method they get fire in less than two minutes." The European reader who tries to follow out these directions will take longer. Prehistoric man in Europe... | |
 | James Hastings, John Alexander Selbie, Louis Herbert Gray - 1914 - 922 Seiten
...one end, and pressing it upon the other, turn it nimbly by holding it between both their hands, as we do a chocolate mill, often shifting their hands up,...them down upon it, to increase the pressure as much aa possible. By this method they get fire in less than two minutes, and from the smallest spark they... | |
 | 1890 - 604 Seiten
...end ; and, Pressing it upon the other, turn it nimbly by holding it !-et wee n both their hands as we do a chocolate mill, often shifting their hands up,...the smallest spark they increase it with great speed and dexterity. We have often seen one of them run along the shore, to all appearance with nothing in... | |
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To produce it they take two pieces of dry soft wood, one is a stick about eight or nine inches long, the other piece is flat: The stick they shape into an obtuse point at one end, and pressing it upon the other, turn it nimbly by holding it between both... 
