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Date: Tue, 07 Jan 1997 07:26:21 +0000
From: Dr AF Bourbeau
Subject: Carrying
fire
Merv Martin wrote:
A fire horn was used to transport a coal. That'd
be a horn that was hollow, like a cow or buffalo horn. Filled with punk and/or
moss and/or cattail fluff, and/or anything else you can find that would burn
slowly in a low oxygen atmosphere. The horn was sealed, but not tightly.
Now... can anyone verify this info?
The best way I know of to carry fire is with
mushrooms, the best of which are Fomes, Ganoderma and Inonotus, otherwise known
as polypores or shelf fungi. I've carried fire for days and days using Fomes
mushrooms to hold the fire. With mushrooms, it doesn't matter if you use a
container to carry the fire, or just hold on to the mushroom with a forked
stick. It's easy. Gets a lot tougher when you don't have the mushrooms, though,
trying to maintain just the right amount of oxygen in a bundle of various
materials wrapped tightly. Ben has documented fire bundles and knows more about
them than I do, as many others I'm sure.
Have fun,
Dr AndrÈ-FranÁois Bourbeau
Professor of Outdoor Pursuits, University of QuÈbec
555 University Blvd, Chicoutimi, (QuÈbec), Canada G7H 2B1
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