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All of us in the ship were twohundred and seventy-six*1persons.
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When they had eatenenough*, they began to lighten the ship by 2throwing out the wheat into the sea.
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Whendaycame, 3they could not recognize the land; but they did observe a bay with a beach, and they resolved to drive the shiponto it if they could.
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And castingoff4the anchors, they left them in the sea while at the sametime they were loosening the ropes of the rudders; and hoisting the foresail to the wind, they were heading for the beach.
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But striking a reefwheretwoseasmet, they ran the vesselaground; and the prowstuckfast and remainedimmovable, but the stern began to be broken up by the force of the waves.
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The soldiers'plan was to 5kill the prisoners, so that none* of them would swimaway and escape;
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but the centurion, 6wanting to bringPaulsafelythrough, kept them from their intention, and commanded that those who couldswim should jumpoverboardfirst and get to land,
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and the rest should follow, some on planks, and others* on variousthings from the ship. And so it happened that 7they all were broughtsafely to land.