Complex sentence: Another way of removing weevils was to heat it at a fire, which would drive them out-those troops too impatient to wait would simply eat it in the dark so they wouldn't have to see what they were consuming.
Split into simpler sentences: Another way of removing weevils was to heat it at a fire, which would drive them out. Those troops too impatient to wait would simply eat it in the dark so they wouldn't have to see what they were consuming.