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Butwhen the fourteenthnight was come , as we were driven up and downinAdria,about midnighttheshipmendeemed that they drew near to somecountry;
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Andsounded , and found it twentyfathoms:and when they had gone a little further, they soundedagain,andfound it fifteenfathoms.
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Thenfearinglestwe should have fallenuponrocks*, they castfouranchors out of the stern, and wished* for the day.
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And as the shipmen were about to flee out of the ship,when they had let down the boatinto the sea, under colour as though they would have castanchors out of the foreship,
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Paulsaid to the centurionand to the soldiers,Excepttheseabidein the ship,yecannot* be saved .
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Then the soldiers cut off the ropes of the boat,andlether fall off .