About five o'clock
This was a fresh problem which tormented Barbicane 's brain , veritably imprisoned as it was in a web of the unknown which he could not disentangle . Neither of the travellers thought of taking a minute 's rest . Each watched for some unexpected incident which should throw a new light on their uranographic studies . About five o'clock Michel distributed to them , by way of dinner , some morsels of bread and cold meat , which were rapidly absorbed , whilst no one thought of leaving the port-light , the panes of which were becoming incrusted under the condensation of vapour . About 5.45 p.m. , Nicholl , armed with his telescope , signalised upon the southern border of the moon , and in the direction followed by the projectile , a few brilliant points outlined against the dark screen of the sky . They looked like a succession of sharp peaks with profiles in a tremulous line . They were rather brilliant .