But when the snow has begun to melt, and the water often covers the miles-wide plains, which are also enclosed by high mountain rings on the habitable side of the moon, by means of this hind foot, this animal must again reach with it's body over the surface of the water, so that it does not drown. At the time of the day's heat however it goes into the rivers, and stands there often for several days in the water, so that it is with the head and the two paws above the surface of the water; If the water rises, it lengthens it's foot, and if it falls, it shortens the foot proportionately, and if such a river often dries up completely, then it continues to move in such a way that it pushes itself forward by the greatest possible lengthening of the hind foot; then it holds with the front feet firmly onto some earth-object, until it has pulled the trunk foot completely to itself, when it then again sticks the four long toes at the end of the rear foot into the earth, and so again pushes the whole body quite nimbly forward. It continues this walk until it reaches water again, where it quickly enters it again with it's hind foot in the manner mentioned earlier. It's food during the day is a kind of flying crustacean, which are not unlike your so-called stag beetles. – The Moon, Chapter 3, Paragraph 8