The Acts

¹⁴But after no long time there beat down from it a tempestuous wind, which is called Euraquilo: ¹⁵and when the ship was caught, and could not face the wind, we gave way to it, and were driven. ¹⁶And running under the lee of a small island called Cauda, we were able, with difficulty, to secure the boat: ¹⁷and when they had hoisted it up, they used helps, under-girding the ship; and, fearing lest they should be cast upon the Syrtis, they lowered the gear, and so were driven. ¹⁸And as we laboured exceedingly with the storm, the next day they began to throw the freight overboard; ¹⁹and the third day they cast out with their own hands the tackling of the ship. ²⁰And when neither sun nor stars shone upon us for many days, and no small tempest lay on us, all hope that we should be saved was now taken away.