37. (We were in all two hundred seventy-six persons on the ship.)
38. When they had eaten enough to be satisfied, they lightened the ship by throwing the wheat into the sea.
39. When day came, they did not recognize the land, but they noticed a bay with a beach, where they decided to run the ship aground if they could.
40. So they slipped the anchors and left them in the sea, at the same time loosening the linkage that bound the steering oars together. Then they hoisted the foresail to the wind and steered toward the beach.
41. But they encountered a patch of crosscurrents and ran the ship aground; the bow stuck fast and could not be moved, but the stern was being broken up by the force of the waves.
42. Now the soldiers’ plan was to kill the prisoners so that none of them would escape by swimming away.