Candle making at camp. These candles are made of tallow, the melted fat of cows and sheep, which was created by dipping a wick time after time to build up a thickly layered candle or left to soak into a reed or rush to create a thin cheap and smoky light. Beeswax, less smoky and fragrant, was used only by the rich, such as the inhabitants of Hinchingbrooke House himself. Lanthorns, polished thin layers of cow horn, could be fixed to a tin frame to make a fairly safe glowing lantern.