"What is it ?" "Let us take our fishing rods and tie one fast to another.

Then we can turn the boat around and go fishing on the rocks for our clothes." "That's the talk," rejoined Powell.

"A good idea, Fred." Three of the rods were pieced together, making a fishing pole over thirty feet long.

The boat was then swung around, and while two kept the craft in place the others went fishing for the clothing.
The task was not so easy as it looked, and the snakes whipped around and hissed in a most alarming fashion.

More than once they had a coat or other garment on the pole only to drop it again.