When the fourteenth night arrived, we were drifting about in the sea of Adria, when the sailors about midnight suspected land was near.
And all this splendour gone in one brief hour!' And all shipmasters and sea-faring folk, sailors and all whose business lies upon the sea, stood far off
The sailors tried to escape from the ship. They had even lowered the boat into the sea, pretending they were going to layout anchors from the bow,
However, we are to be stranded on an island."
On taking soundings they found twenty fathoms, and a little further on, when they sounded again, they found fifteen.