Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 August 1882 — Water From Wood. [ARTICLE]

Water From Wood.

By thrusting the ends of green scrub wood—“mallec crub”—in the fire, and catching the sap driven out at the other end in a bark trough, an Australian supplied himself with water and saved his life while crossing a waterless region. He says that a dozen mallec sticks, four feet long and two or three inches in diameter, would give a pint of water in an hour, and suggests that the same device may possibly be found of vital importance to other bush-rangers and travelers in arid regions,