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Rh had gone a little further, they ounded again, and found it fifteen fathoms. Then fearing lest we should have fallen upon rocks, they cast four anchors out of the stern and wished for the day.

"And when it was day they knew not the land, but they discovered a certain creek with a shore, into which they were minded, if it were possible, to thrust in the ship. And when they had taken up the anchors, they committed unto the sea, and loosed the rudder bands. and hoised up the mainsail to the wind, and made toward the shore. And falling into a place where two seas met, they ran the ship aground and the forepart stuck fast, and remained un-movable, but the hinder part was broken with the violence of the waves.

"And the soldiers' counsel was to kill the prisoners, lest any of them should swim out and escape; but the centurion, willing to save Paul, kept them from their purpose, and commanded that they which could swim should cast them-selves first into the sea and get to land: and the rest, some on boards, and some on broken pieces of the ship, and so it came to pass that