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Figure 7-3. Starting a fire with flint and steel.
Starting a Fire with Bow and Drill
A fire can be started by rapidly spinning a wooden “drill”—under pressure—against a notch in
a board (see
fig. 7-4
), until enough heat is generated to create a small coal, which is dropped in-
to tinder and fanned into fire. This is not easy, but it's about a hundred times easier than starting
a fire with a hand-spun stick.
