It was not so thick as mine, nor so heavy: it was a sort of dark slate-stone.

Forthwith a discussion arose as to the merits of the two _spiders_; which was finally decided in favor of the one I had found, from its being the whitest and cleanest-looking.

Meanwhile Donovan had been feeding the fire so profusely, that all hands had been obliged to get back from it.

Animal fat, like this of the walrus, makes an exceedingly hot flame.

Three flat stones were set up edgewise, and the spider set on them.