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

Frank heard his own name mentioned. The next moment

place of concealment w

ub

h pair of adventurers were more a

ed Ben, "whar did you boys c

Frank, "no, we've be

then what I was afeard

s that

we are on

n isl

floating

e all dumb with amaze

s they are called-are nothing more or less than huge sections of forest torn from

hey keep afloa

mbs keep 'em up for a long time,"

inking," exclaimed Frank,

all right," replied the old sailor, "just

sland, as they now knew it, was moving slowly alo

p never finds us

been in worse fixes than this and got out of them. What we had best do now is to gather up

wing from the springs. We passed

to the ground after the rain," said Ben.

s scooping out their shells so as to form sort of pots out of them. These were

r," said Ben, when the boys had filled what he pronou

branches the oysters that clung to them. These were roasted in the same m

as they concluded their meal. "If the worst comes to t

at he was going to explore the interior of the island and see if he could find some tree up which it wo

ted, said that they would remain in

roused by a sudden shout. At the sound they all sprang t

note of terr

boys,

and then died away, as if the sh

n," shou

e happened?"

of some kind," sho

ng his revolver, "get your knives ready

w minutes pushing through the dense brush, which greatly hampered their progress, they heard a tremendous n

Frank, his face pale at t

answered. Pushing aside some brush the boys

his face transfixed with horror

t they had ever seen; the sunlight checkered its bright colored folds.

hoot and kill it

ed the trigger and, before the sharp report that followed had died a

roke from the boys. In its struggles the monster had convulsed its fo

giant reptile's grip without hav

boys stood petrified with terror. Even Ben, to whom his rescue and Frank's peril had

ard and picked up Frank's revolver, which the boy had dropped when th

red out and every missile took effect in the reptile's huge head. In its death agony it straig

in, but Ben held them b

y not be dead y

d to Ben's fusillade and, this settled, they dragged Frank to a

ination. It was not long before the boy opened his eyes

k's pocket rule proved to be a trifle o

long the Amazon and they are as deadly a snake as there i

ore of them on the isl

s creatures here, too. This island, as I should judge, must be all of six

back to camp. The first thing that all wanted was a drink of water

row of improvised water pots Fra

"there's some one on this

s the amaz

here were twenty cocoanut shells of water when

n an alarmed voice, "and the

cried Billy, as something cam

iddle of the group of adventurers. Before they had recovered from their astonishmen

ed the boys' hearts

is haunted!"