However, we must be cast on a certain island.
Which when they had taken up, they used helps, under girding the ship; and, fearing lest they should fall into the quicksands, struck sail, and so were driven.
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;
Then fearing lest we should have fallen on rocks, they cast four anchors out of the stern, and wished for the day.
And when they were escaped, then they knew that the island was called Melita.