The question is in the title, but actually I have a precise idea.
I seem to remember reading in a book that some people transported fire/ember in some sort of metal basket or something, to be able to relight a fire at the next stop... Does this ring a bell ? I can't remember the book, so it could be History/Fiction, I'm trying to figure out if this existed.
If it existed indeed, what was it called ?
Thank you very much in advance.
Not sure about Europe, but in the Werner Herzog documentary "Little Dieter Learns to Fly", he recounts being marched through the woods in Vietnam by locals, some of whom would carry a small metal bucket with a few holes in, filled with smouldering coals. Rather than being for lighting fires especially, they were a sort of portable barbecue - the locals would snack throughout their journeys by using a sort of sticky flyswat to capture large insectoids, put them on the coals for a minute or two, then eat. But the coals would last pretty much all day.