“…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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