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What does this mean: "dead wood we could cut up in the night for next day's stemaning"?

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I had to keep a lookout for the signs of dead wood we could cut up in the night for next day's steaming.

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  1. finding wood for fuel ;)


  2. Its from "Heart of Darkness" by Joseph Conrad

    The narrator is referring to keeping watch for wood that can be used as fuel in the steamboat they are on.

    In Chapter II he writes:  

    I had to keep guessing at the channel; I had to discern, mostly by inspiration, the signs of hidden banks; I watched for sunken stones; I was learning to clap my teeth smartly before my heart flew out, when I shaved by a fluke some infernal sly old snag that would have ripped the life out of the tin-pot steamboat and drowned all the pilgrims; I had to keep a look-out for the signs of dead wood we could cut up in the night for next day's steaming.

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