“If these men leave the canoe,” he said to him and the other soldiers, “you will not be saved and all will be lost.”
But the head soldier was more convinced by the headman of the canoe than by the words of Small Man (Paul).
The ones my Father has given to me will come to me. They are a gift from my Father that I will always keep.
But then, some of the men, trying to escape, untied the life raft and lowered it into the water, pretending they were putting out more anchor rocks. Small Man (Paul) saw what they were doing and went to the head soldier.
So the soldiers cut the leather straps from the life raft and let it drift away.
The rest he sent floating on wooden poles and pieces of the canoe. In this way all who were aboard made it safely to the land.