This he laid carefully along the straight side of the lamp.
Then, turning to Cabot, he uttered the single word: "Metches." "Great Scott!" exclaimed the young engineer, "I forgot to bring any.
But of course you must have some, White." "No, I haven't.

Matches were among the things you were to look after, and so I never gave them a thought." The spirits of the lads, raised to a high pitch of expectation by the sight of Yim's lamp, suddenly sank to zero with the discovery that they had no means for lighting it.

Yim, however, only smiled at their dismay.

Of course he had long since learned the use of matches, and to appreciate them at their full value; but he also knew how to produce fire without their aid in the simplest manner ever devised by primitive man.

It is the friction method of rubbing wood against wood, and, in one form or another, is used all over the world.