The plates of iron fastened at the bottom of the box (for those were the strongest) preserved the balance while it fell, and hindered it from being broken on the surface of the water. Every joint of it was well grooved;
Kaxaren zoruan zeuden burdin xaflek (sendoenak zirenak) orekan mantendu zuten jausi bitartean, eta urgainaz apurtzea ere eragotzi zuten.