... so I contrived to burn some wood here, as I had seen done in England, under turf, till it became chark or dry coal ...
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Chark
//t͡ʃɑː(ɹ)k//
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The discoverer of the chark, or " fire-drill," an instrument for obtaining fire by artificial means, would be so great a benefactor to a people that had to suffer all the inconveniences resulting from occasional fireless hearths, that we may well understand why he may be invested by his astonished and delighted fellow-savages with miraculous or supernatural powers.
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At noon, each man got his half-chark (a wine glass) full of rum and a four-quart iron pot of fish soup made from salt salmon, potatoes and graham flour ... in the evening another half chark of rum and 20 cents as pay for the day's work.
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A good chark will sometimes take as many as eight or ten bustards or five or six gazelles in the course of a morning.
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