1. Yet, oddly enough, I found a far unlikelier substance, and that was camphor.
2. I had the camphor in my pocket, too, if a blaze were needed.
3. If we could get through it to the bare hillside, there, as it seemed to me, was an altogether safer resting-place I thought that with my matches and my camphor I could contrive to keep my path illuminated through the woods.
4. I hastily took a lump of camphor from my pocket, and prepared to light it as soon as the match should wane.
5. I lit the block of camphor and flung it to the ground, and as it split and flared up and drove back the Morlocks and the shadows, I knelt down and lifted her.
6. I put Weena, still motionless, down upon a turfy bole, and very hastily, as my first lump of camphor waned, I began collecting sticks and leaves.
7. I lit another piece of camphor, and went on gathering my bonfire.
8. Very soon I had a choking smoky fire of green wood and dry sticks, and could economise my camphor.