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We went to a lot of trouble working out how we could best place these / fires so that they should give us the most satisfactory results. First / of all we decided with much care on the exact position where we would / build them. Mostly they were on bare knolls or shoulders, where they / couldn't spread to the underbrush and start a bush-fire. Then came the / question of fuel: -What would be the best wood to build them of?
There were practically no dead trees, as I have said. The only thing to / do then was to cut some timber down and let it dry.