It was a point where the river took a sudden turn, forming a sort of angle in the stream, where the water was very dark and deep.
The bank was high at that place, and it was covered with trees and bushes.

Some of these trees had been undermined, and their roots and branches were floating in the water.

The boys scrambled down to the brink and made ready for fishing.

They cut slender poles in the bushes, for fishing-poles.

There was a trunk of a tree lying along the shore, extending obliquely out a little way over the water, which furnished them a convenient footing.