The result of this was that the sunlit crescent rapidly grew in breadth.

Peak after peak and range after range rose up swiftly out of the black gulf beyond.

The sun climbed quickly up through the star-strewn, mid-day heavens, and the full earth sank more swiftly still behind them.
Another hour of silent, entranced wonder and admiration followed, and then Redgrave said: "Don't you think it's about time we were beginning to think of breakfast, dear--or do you think you can wait till we land ?" "Breakfast on the moon!" she exclaimed.

"That would be just too lovely for words--of course we'll wait!" "Very well," he said; "you see that big black ring nearly below us ?--that, as I suppose you know, is the celebrated Mount Tycho.

I'll try and find a convenient spot on the top of the ring to drop on, and then you will be able to survey the scenery from seventeen or eighteen thousand feet above the plains." About two hours later a slight, jarring tremor ran through the frame of the vessel, and the first stage of the voyage was ended.