We were somewhat scantily supplied with kitchen utensils; our saucepan, or boiling-pot, especially, had seen much service.  Silva showed us how we might boil our fish without it.  He collected a quantity of very fine grass, and set to work to plait a large basket.  So neatly did he put it together, that, after he had soaked it in water, he filled it up to the brim and not a drop ran out.  Then he put the fish in; and lighting a fire, heated a number of large stones.  These, as soon as they were hot, he kept putting into the basket.  As soon as he supposed that all their caloric had left them, he hooked them out with a forked stick.  In this way, by keeping the water boiling by a constant supply of hot stones, he thoroughly cooked the fish.  I should think anything which does not require much boiling might be cooked in the same way.