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26 But we are to be stranded on some island."
27 It was the fourteenth night of the storm, and we were drifting through the Adriatic when about midnight the sailors began to suspect that there was land ahead.
28 On taking soundings, they found a depth of twenty fathoms, and a little later, taking soundings again, they found a depth of fifteen.
29 Then as they were afraid we might go on the rocks, they dropped four anchors from the stern and waited anxiously for daylight.