Having travers'd the isle as far as to Paphos, they found a Jew there nam'd Barjesus, who was a false prophet and magician:

when we were nigh the isle Clauda, we had much ado to hoist in the skiff.

Having thus escap'd, we found we were upon the isle of Malta:

In the same quarters, the chief man of the isle whose name was Publius, had a lordship: the same received us, and lodged us three days courteously.

When this was done, others also which had diseases in the isle, came and were healed:

After three months we departed in a ship of Alexandria, which had wintered in the isle, whose badge was Castor and Pollux.

But we must be cast upon a certain isle.