These buffers were still good, and, gravity being as yet almost imperceptible, to put them once more in order and adjust them to the disc was not a difficult task.
The travellers set to work at once and soon accomplished it.

The different pieces were put together readily--a mere matter of bolts and screws, with plenty of tools to manage them.

In a short time the repaired disc rested on its steel buffers, like a table on its legs, or rather like a sofa seat on its springs.

The new arrangement was attended with at least one disadvantage.

The bottom light being covered up, a convenient view of the Moon's surface could not be had as soon as they should begin to fall in a perpendicular descent.