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OCR Rendition - approximate35 o Art of Travel. Materials for Candles.- Tallow.-Mutton-suet mixed with oxtallow is the best material for candles. Tallow should never be melted over a hot fire : it is best to melt it by putting the pot in hot sand. To procure fat, see " Greasing Leather," p. 343. Wax.-Boil the comb for hours, together with a little water to keep it from burning, then press the melted mass through a cloth into a deep puddle of cold water. This makes beeswax. (See " Honey, to find," p. 199.) Candlestick.-A hole cut with the knife in a sod of turf or a potato ; 3, 4, or 5 nails hammered in a circle into a piece of wood, to act as a socket ; a hollow bone ; an empty bottle ; a strap with the end passed the wrong way through the buckle and coiled inside ; and a bayonet stuck in the ground, are all used as makeshift candlesticks. " In bygone days the broad feet, or rather legs, of the swan, after being stretched and dried, were converted into candlesticks."-Lloyd. Lamps.-Lamps may be made of hard wood, hollowed out to receive the oil; also of lead. (See "Lead," p. 340.) The shed hoof of an ox or other beast is sometimes used. Slush Lamp is simply a pannikin full of fat, with a rag wrapped round a small stick planted as a wick in the middle of it. Lantern.-A wooden box, a native bucket, or a calabash,
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