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Charring Plant & Fungus Tinders without using a "char tin"!!!
In the 18th & 19th centuries people did not use a tin or any container to char tinder for flint & steel fire lighting. They simply charred the tinder material, be it tow rag (cloth), plant or fungus material, directly in the flames of the fire. Then they extinguished the smouldering...- Le Loup
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The Gunpowder Bag or Wallet.
One of the author's five leather gunpowder bags. “…fungus that grows on the outside of the birch-tree…used by all the Indians in those parts for tinder…called by the Northern Indians Jolt-thee, and is known all over the country bordering on Hudson’s Bay by the name of Pesogan…there is another...- Le Loup
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- 18th century documentation fire lighting fungus gunpowder bag gunpowder wallet period quotes plant tinders tinder
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