However, we are to be stranded on an island."
It was only after our escape that we found out the island was called Malta.
once it was hoisted aboard, they used ropes to undergird the ship, and in fear of being stranded on the Syrtis they lowered the sail and lay to.
Then, afraid of being stranded on the rocks, they let go four anchors from the stern and longed for daylight.
When the fourteenth night arrived, we were drifting about in the sea of Adria, when the sailors about midnight suspected land was near.
