red exceedingly with the storm, the next day they began to throw
the freight overboard; and the third day they cast out with their own
hands the tackling of the ship. And 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.

And when they had been long without food, then Paul stood forth in the
midst of them, and said, "Sirs, ye should have hearkened unto me, and
not have set sail from Crete, and have gotten this injury and loss. And
now I exhort you to be of good cheer: for there shall be no loss of life
among you, but only of the ship. For there stood by me this night an
angel of the God whose I am, whom also I serve, saying, 'Fear not, Paul;
thou must stand before Caesar: and lo, God hath granted thee all them
that sail with thee.' Wherefore, sirs, be of good cheer: for I believe
God, that it shall be even so as it hath been spoken unto me. Howbeit we
must be cast upon a certain island."

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[Illustration]
I. THE APPIAN WAY, OVER WHICH PAUL TRAVELED TO ROME.
The ruins are those of ancient tombs. In the foreground are stones of
the old Roman pavement.

Owned by Prof. E. J. Brady, Department of Latin, Smith College, and
used by his kind permission.

The "Via Appia," the oldest and most celebrated of Roman roads, was
constructed as far as Capua A. U. C. 442 by the censor, Appius
Claudius. Procopius, writing 800 years later, describes it as broad
enough for two chariots to pass. It was paved with stones brought from
distant quarries and so fitted together as to seem formed by nature.
He says that the road was then in perfect condition.
[End illustration]

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But when the fourteenth night was come, as we were driven to and fro in
the Adriatic Sea, about midnight the sailors surmised that they were
drawing near to land; and they sounded, and found twenty fathoms: and
after a little space, they sounded again, and found fifteen fathoms. And
fearing lest we should be cast ashore on rocky ground, they let go four
anchors from the stern, and wished for the day. And as the sailors were
seeking to flee out of the ship, and had lowered the boat into the sea,
pretending that they would lay out anchors from the bow, Paul said to
the centurion and to the soldiers, "Except these abide in the ship, ye
cannot be saved."

Then the soldiers cut away the ropes of the boat, and let her fall off.
And while th