But afterward that in the fourteen day the night came on us sailing in the stony sea, about midnight the shipmen supposed some country to appear to them.
And the governor came to him, and said to him, Why art thou cast down in sleep? rise thou, call thy God to help, if peradventure God again-think of us, and we perish not.
And they cast [or sent] down a plummet, and found twenty fathoms of deepness. And after a little they were departed from thence, and found fifteen fathoms.
And when the shipmen sought to flee from the ship, when they had sent a little boat into the sea, under colour as they should begin to stretch forth the anchors from the former part of the ship,
for in one hour so many riches be destitute, either done away. And each governor, and all that sail by ship into place, and mariners, and they that work in the sea, stood far,