4/15 At least the rope is broken and most of our supplies appear to have been carried away. We are now back to first principles. The first thing to be done is to build a fire." "Fine! I should like to see you do that with everything soaking wet," laughed Elfreda. "What we need first of all is light so we may see what we are about." After searching about, Tom found an old uptilted log which he proposed to use as a "backlog" for a fire. He next roamed about with his lamp, hunting for a dead pine tree leaning to the south. |