De Postle Dem 27:9-20

⁹Now we done been loss tommuch time, cause e done been atta de day wen de Jew people beena hab dey fast dat yeah, an de wata been too rough. So Paul waan de oda people een de boat.

¹⁰E tell um say, “Oona me fren, A see dat we trabel now gwine mek we suffa tommuch wen we come outta yah. Dey gwine be plenty haam ta we, an de load, an de boat too. An dey gwine be loss ob life too.”

¹¹Bot de aamy offisa ain tek wa Paul say. E listen ta wa de boat captain an de man wa own de boat say.

¹²De haaba weh dey been ain been good fa stay een oba de winta time. So mos all de man dem been wahn fa sail outta dey an go on an try fa reach Phoenix. Dat been a haaba een Crete dat open ta de wata ta soutwest an ta de nortwest. Dey been wahn fa stay dey til de winta been pass.

¹³A leetle breeze fom de sout staat fa blow, an de man dem been tink dey kin sail like dey been plan. So dey loose de boat an sail um pass, close ta de sho ob Crete Islant.

¹⁴Purty soon, a big, big wind like a hurricane blow down fom de islant. Dey call dat wind de “Norteasta.”

¹⁵De wind shake de boat scrong. Dey try fa ton de boat fa go ginst de wind an sail ta Crete, bot de big wind ain leh we go dat way. So we ain try dat no mo, an we leh de wind tek de boat long.

¹⁶De breeze ain blow so bad wiles we beena pass sout ob a leetle islant name Cauda. Dey we manage fa fix de small lifeboat mo betta pon de big boat, bot dat ain been easy fa do.

¹⁷De man dem pull de lifeboat eenta de big boat. Den dey tie rope tight roun de big boat fa mek sho e ain gwine fall apaat. Sandbank been dey een de wata close ta de sho ob Libya, so dey been scaid dat de big boat gwine fasten dey pon de sandbank. Dey pull de sail down an leh de wind tek de boat long.

¹⁸De boat beena shake tommuch een de big storm. So de nex day, dey staat fa shrow way some ob de boat load eenta de wata.

¹⁹De tird day, dey tek an pull some ob de ting dem like sail an tackle fom eenside de boat an shrow um way eenta de wata.

²⁰Fa plenty day, we ain been able fa see de sun an we ain been able fa see de staa. An de wind keep on da blow scrong, til at las we beena tink we gwine dead fa sho.