her fall off.
027:033 And continually, up till daybreak, Paul kept urging all on board
to take some food. "This is the fourteenth day," he said,
"that you have been anxiously waiting for the storm to cease,
and have fasted, eating little or nothing.
027:034 I therefore strongly advise you to take some food.
This is essential for your safety. For not a hair will perish
from the head of any one of you."
027:035 Having said this he took some bread, and, after giving thanks
to God for it before them all, he broke it in pieces and began
to eat it.
027:036 This raised the spirits of all, and they too took food.
027:037 There were 276 of us, crew and passengers, all told.
027:038 After eating a hearty meal they lightened the ship by throwing
the wheat overboard.
027:039 When daylight came, they tried in vain to recognise the coast.
But an inlet with a sandy beach attracted their attention,
and now their object was, if possible, to run the ship aground
in this inlet.
027:040 So they cut away the anchors and left them in the sea,
unloosing at the same time the bands which secured
the paddle-rudders. Then, hoisting the foresail to the wind,
they made for the beach.
027:041 But coming to a place where two seas met, they stranded the ship,
and her bow sticking fast remained immovable, while the stern
began to go to pieces under the heavy hammering of the sea.
027:042 Now the soldiers recommended that the prisoners should be killed,
for fear some one of them might swim ashore and effect his escape.
027:043 But their Captain, bent on securing Paul's safety, kept them
from their purpose and gave orders that those who could swim