myself that if I lived, I’d return to my parents and never go
on another ship.
Everyone was afraid they were going to die. We could see
land and other ships, but it was impossible to reach them.
Waves as high as mountains crashed into the ship and soon
we started to sink.2 As we were sinking, we saw a small boat
with twelve men inside it. It was from one of the other ships.
Someone was coming to save us!
Th e men in the boat tried hard to reach us, but the wind
was very strong. Every time they tried to come to the side of
our ship, the waves moved them away. Finally, we all managed
to jump onto the boat, but the other ship was too far away to
reach now. I was very frightened, but our captain said to the
men who’d come to save us, ‘We must try to get to land. Row
to the nearest beach and I’ll pay your captain for his boat