we let her drive. And running under a certain island, which is called Clauda, we had much work to come by the boat, which, when they had taken up, they used helps, undergirding the ship; and fearing lest they should fall into the quicksands, strake sail, and so were driven. And we being exceedingly tossed with a tempest, the next day they lightened the ship; and the third day we cast out with our own hands the tackling of the ship, and when neither sun nor stars in many days appeared, and no small tempest lay on us, all hope that we should be saved was taken away.
"But after long abstinence, Paul stood forth in the midst of them, and said: Sirs, ye should have hearkened unto me, and not have loosed from Crete, and to have gained this harm and loss." And after exhorting them to be of good cheer, he told them that they must be cast upon a certain island. "But when the fourteenth night was come, as we were driven up and down in Adria, about midnight the shipmen deemed that they drew near to some country; and sounded and found it twenty fathoms: and when they
