00:00They cut giant blocks of ice from frozen ponds, loaded it into the belly of a ship,
00:05Then stacked the blocks together and sealed the hold with hay and bark.
00:10That layer trapped tiny pockets of air, which slowed the outside heat from reaching the ice.
00:15So even after four months at sea, almost half had melted away,
00:20but 100 tons still arrived frozen solid.
00:23Then workers slid them into an onshore ice house,
00:26where people in India's brutal heat finally chilled their drinks.
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