So they took a sounding and found twenty fathoms. A little farther on they took a sounding again and found fifteen fathoms.
When the fourteenth night had come, as we were being driven across the Adriatic Sea, about midnight the sailors suspected that they were nearing land.
And fearing that we might run on the rocks, they let down four anchors from the stern and prayed for day to come.
not to many peoples of foreign speech and a hard language, whose words you cannot understand. Surely, if I sent you to such, they would listen to you.