The Boy Aviators' Polar Dash; or, Facing Death in the Antarctic

in sub-tropic waters, steaming steadily along under blue skies and throug

s of frightened birds as the bow of the polar ship cut through the water. Unde

east somewhere is the t

rry, indicating the pu

: See Vol. 4 of this s

t; or, The Go

k, pointing due south, "I wish the old Southern Cross

lly, "here we've been at sea a week and Captain Hazzard hasn't told us yet

of wasting speculation on something we are bound not to find out till w

all room, formerly a storeroom, below the raised poop containing the cabins had been fitted up for a wireless room. In this the boys had spent a good deal of time d

sat silently for a while absently clicking out calls, to none of wh

cried, "here

demand

he held up his han

pause, in which the receiver had buzze

looked thei

derstand it. Whoever is calling has a very weak sending current. I can

in concentration once more. After some moments of silence, broken only by the slight noise of the receiver, he pressed hi

g?" asked Billy,

ejoinder. The wireless con

cried Harry, "har

doesn't mean anything to me. What's he done,

ing response, "he's p

protested the

n blown out to sea. They tried to give me their position, and as near as I can comprehend thei

distress?" de

t the bag of the ship may explode at any moment. They c

they open

ank, disconnecting the instrument and removing the head-piece. "I have sent word to them that we

ceremoniously burst into the captain's cabin where the latter was busy with a mass

up, "but I have picked up a most important message by wireless

ers instantly b

" cried Capt

Barrington. "Did they give you

pidly repeated the latitude an

up a speaking tube and hailed the wheel-house, giving instructions to change the course. He then emerged on de

sent into the crow's nest

r," he cried, pointi

," demanded

big bird," was

into the main shrouds. When he had climbed above the cross-trees he drew out his glasses a

ly overcame his dislike to clambering into the rigging for

r she stood out in more detail. The watchers could then see that she was a large air craft for her type and carried two men, who were running back and forth in ap

oing to do?" aske

ided now that as we are so near they will take a chance and open it and

that," rejoined the captain, "t

party and looked with his long legs and big round glasses, like some queer sort of a bird perched in the ri

irigible. Even the old chief engineer had left his engines and wiping his

mon that wud go tae sea in sic a craft moost

stone into the ocean, carrying with it the man who had remained on it. Of the other, the one who had climbed the bag, not a trace could be seen. Even as the onloo

ly commanded Captain Barrington, almost before

her gauges registering every pound of steam her boilers could carry, ru

Hazzard, as, followed by the boys, he clambered out of

ave on life-belts,

uch good," put in a voi

rofessor

ongside in a few minutes now and if t

imminent as another grave dange

t's

reply, "these wate