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18TH CENTURY LIVING HISTORY IN AUSTRALIA.

Saturday 9 June 2012

Flintlock Fire Lighting.


 “…he was left to amuse himself all night a long side his fier (fire) which he made with his gun.” ~A. McKenzie, 1804.

 “provided with candles and a tinder-box, which I had made of the lock of one of the muskets, with some wildfire in the pan”.Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe, 1660-1731.

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