26. “However, we need to run aground on some island.”
27. And when the fourteenth night came, as we were driven up and down in the Adriatic Sea, about midnight the sailors suspected that they were drawing near some land.
28. So, taking soundings, they found it to be twenty fathoms. And a little farther on they took soundings again and found it to be fifteen fathoms.
29. And, fearing lest we should run aground on the rocks, they dropped four anchors from the stern, and were praying for day to come.