When they had eaten their fill they lightened the ship by throwing the wheat into the sea.
In context
36They were all encouraged, and took food themselves. 37In all we were two hundred and seventy-six souls on board. 38When they had eaten their fill they lightened the ship by throwing the wheat into the sea. 39When day came they did not recognize the land, but they could make out a bay with a beach, and they decided to run the ship ashore there if they could. 40They cut away the anchors and left them in the sea, untied the ropes of the steering-oars, hoisted the foresail to the wind and made for the beach.
