Why, on a sealer, they do all their trying-out the oil with a fire of seal-refuse.

Why shouldn't it burn as well as a candle ?" "There's our wood-pile, then!" cried Raed, giving the carcass a kick.
"Let's have a fire forthwith.

Don, you slash out a hundred-weight or so." "Don't cut the hide to pieces," Kit interposed: "we may want that to make a tent of." Donovan whipped out his butcher-knife, and, stripping back the tough skin, cut out a pile of huge slices.

Kit, meanwhile, got a piece of old thwart from the boat, and whittled up a heap of pine slivers.

Two of the fat slices were then slit up into thin strips, and laid on the slivers.