When day came they did not recognize the land, but made out a bay with a beach. They planned to run the ship ashore on it, if they could.
Joseph her husband, since he was a righteous man, yet unwilling to expose her to shame, decided to divorce her quietly.
So they cast off the anchors and abandoned them to the sea, and at the same time they unfastened the lines of the rudders, and hoisting the foresail into the wind, they made for the beach.
Once we had reached safety we learned that the island was called Malta.