02 South Sea Adventure
“All flesh was scraped away from the inside surface. The straps quickly dried in the sun.
‘Don’t we need to tan them?’ asked Roger.
‘If we wanted them to last for years we would have to tan them. But it isn’t necessary for our purposes. They will stand up all right for a few weeks.’ ‘It seems funny to be making leather out of squid tentacles.’ ‘Why so? They make leather out of other things just as strange - kangaroo, wallaby, buffalo, ostrich, deer, lizard, alligator, shark, seal, and walrus. Ca...nnibals have even made leather out of human skin.’ By tying together the ends of the four straps they had cut from one of the twenty-foot tentacles they were able to get a line more than long enough to reach to the bottom of the cove. They fastened it to the palm-cloth bag and were ready for diving operations.
‘Let me go first,’ demanded Roger.
He tucked a rock under one arm, gripped the bag with his other hand, and dropped into the lagoon. The ripples he left on the surface gave Hal a wobbly vision of his brother as he descended to the floor of the bay.MoreLess
‘Don’t we need to tan them?’ asked Roger.
‘If we wanted them to last for years we would have to tan them. But it isn’t necessary for our purposes. They will stand up all right for a few weeks.’ ‘It seems funny to be making leather out of squid tentacles.’ ‘Why so? They make leather out of other things just as strange - kangaroo, wallaby, buffalo, ostrich, deer, lizard, alligator, shark, seal, and walrus. Ca...nnibals have even made leather out of human skin.’ By tying together the ends of the four straps they had cut from one of the twenty-foot tentacles they were able to get a line more than long enough to reach to the bottom of the cove. They fastened it to the palm-cloth bag and were ready for diving operations.
‘Let me go first,’ demanded Roger.
He tucked a rock under one arm, gripped the bag with his other hand, and dropped into the lagoon. The ripples he left on the surface gave Hal a wobbly vision of his brother as he descended to the floor of the bay.MoreLess
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