13. When a gentle breeze began to blow from the south, the men thought their plan would work. They raised the anchor and sailed close to the shore of Crete.
14. Soon a powerful wind (called a northeaster) blew from the island.
15. The wind carried the ship away, and we couldn’t sail against the wind. We couldn’t do anything, so we were carried along by the wind.
16. As we drifted to the sheltered side of a small island called Cauda, we barely got control of the ship’s lifeboat.
17. The men pulled it up on deck. Then they passed ropes under the ship to reinforce it. Fearing that they would hit the large sandbank off the shores of Libya, they lowered the sail and were carried along by the wind.
18. We continued to be tossed so violently by the storm that the next day the men began to throw the cargo overboard.