But we must fall on a certain island.
which taking, they used helps, undergirding the ship. And fearing lest they should fall into the sandbanks of Syrtis, lowering the tackle, so they were borne along.
But when the fourteenth night came, we being carried about in the Adriatic Sea, about midnight the sailors thought that they drew near some country.
And fearing that we would fall on rocks, and casting four anchors out of the stern, they wished day to come.
And being saved, then they knew that the island was called Melita.
