In this
bag, which was of sufficient dimensions, the entire car was in a
manner placed. That is to say, it (the bag) was drawn over the whole
bottom of the car, up its sides, and so on, along the outside of the
ropes, to the upper rim or hoop where the net-work is attached. Having
pulled the bag up in this way, and formed a complete enclosure on
all sides, and at botttom, it was now necessary to fasten up its top
or mouth, by passing its material over the hoop of the net-work- in
other words, between the net-work and the hoop. But if the net-work
were separated from the hoop to admit this passage, what was to
sustain the car in the meantime? Now the net-work was not
permanently fastened to the hoop, but attached by a series of
running loops or nooses. I therefore undid only a few of these loops
at one time, leaving the car suspended by the remainder. Having thus
inserted a portion of the cloth forming the upper part of the bag, I
refastened the loops- not to the hoop, for that would have been
impossible, since the cloth now intervened- but to a series of large
buttons, affixed to the cloth itself, about three feet below the mouth
of the bag, the intervals between the buttons having been made to
correspond to the intervals between the loops.
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