Translations
They took soundings and found the water was twenty fathoms deep; a little farther on they sounded again and found fifteen fathoms.
They took soundings and found twenty fathoms; a short time later they sounded again and found fifteen fathoms.
And sounded, and found it twenty fathoms: and when they had gone a little further, they sounded again, and found it fifteen fathoms.
They took soundings and found that the water was twenty fathoms deep. Going a little farther, they took another set of soundings that read fifteen fathoms.

