36. They were all encouraged, and took some food themselves.
37. In all, there were two hundred seventy-six of us on the ship.
38. After they had eaten enough, they lightened the ship by throwing the wheat into the sea.
39. When day came they did not recognize the land, but made out a bay with a beach. They planned to run the ship ashore on it, if they could.
40. So they cast off the anchors and abandoned them to the sea, and at the same time they unfastened the lines of the rudders, and hoisting the foresail into the wind, they made for the beach.