"You're with me an' the bear!" exclaimed a voice.
The boys started. They saw, lying near them, old Andy. At his feet was the polar bear, dead, with the hunter's knife sticking in his heart.
"And what place is this?" asked Jack.
"It appears to me like a big ice cave," answered the hunter.
"Yes, and we're lost in it," spoke up Jack, and gave something of a shudder.
"That's right, my boy," answered Andy Sudds.
CHAPTER XI
ATTACKED BY SEA LIONS
Frightened and alarmed at the unusual sight of an enraged polar bear rushing in their direction, Bill and Tom had turned and fled at the first appearance of danger. They were not cowards, and would probably have faced a mad bull, but that was something they were used to, while a bear was something new.
So they raced back over the ice toward the place where the disabled airship rested.