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in the happiness of their intoxication boundless hope soon arose. All



their miseries were forgotten. Their country was born anew.

They felt the need, as it were, of directing upon others the



extravagant fury which they had been unable to employ against

themselves. Such a sacrifice could not be in vain; although they felt



no remorse they found themselves carried away by the frenzy which

results from complicity in irreparable crimes.



The Barbarians had encountered the storm in their ill-closed tents;

and they were still quite chilled on the morrow as they tramped



through the mud in search of their stores and weapons, which were

spoiled and lost.



Hamilcar went himself to see Hanno, and, in virtue of his plenary

powers, intrusted the command to him. The old Suffet hesitated for a



few minutes between his animosity and his appetite for authority, but

he accepted nevertheless.



Hamilcar next took out a galley armed with a catapult at each end. He

placed it in the gulf in front of the raft; then he embarked his



stoutest troops on board such vessels as were available. He was

apparently taking to flight; and runningnorthward before the wind he



disappeared into the mist.

But three days afterwards, when the attack was about to begin again,



some people arrived tumultuously from the Libyan coast. Barca had come

among them. He had carried off provisions everywhere, and he was



spreading through the country.

Then the Barbarians were indignant as though he were betraying them.



Those who were most weary of the siege, and especially the Gauls, did

not hesitate to leave the walls in order to try and rejoin him.



Spendius wanted to reconstruct the helepolis; Matho had traced an

imaginary line from his tent to Megara, and inwardly swore to follow



it, and none of their men stirred. But the rest, under the command of

Autaritus, went off, abandoning the western part of the rampart, and



so profound was the carelessness exhibited that no one even thought of

replacing them.



Narr' Havas spied them from afar in the mountains. During the night he

led all his men along the sea-shore on the outer side of the Lagoon,



and entered Carthage.

He presented himself as a saviour with six thousand men all carrying



meal under their cloaks, and forty elephants laden with forage and

dried meat. The people flocked quickly around them; they gave them



names. The sight of these strong animals, sacred to Baal, gave the

Carthaginians even more joy than the arrival of such relief; it was a



token of the tenderness of the god, a proof that he was at last about

to interfere in the war to defend them.



Narr' Havas received the compliments of the Ancients. Then he ascended

to Salammbo's palace.



He had not seen her again since the time when in Hamilcar's tent amid

the five armies he had felt her little, cold, soft hand fastened to



his own; she had left for Carthage after the betrothal. His love,

which had been diverted by other ambitions, had come back to him; and



now he expected to enjoy his rights, to marry her, and take her.

Salammbo did not understand how the young man could ever become her



master! Although she asked Tanith every day for Matho's death, her

horror of the Libyan was growing less. She vaguely felt that the hate



with which he had persecuted her was something almost religious,--and

she would fain have seen in Narr' Havas's person a reflection, as it



were, of that malice which still dazzled her. She desired to know him

better, and yet his presence would have embarrassed her. She sent him



word that she could not receive him.

Moreover, Hamilcar had forbidden his people to admit the King of the



Numidians to see her; by putting off his reward to the end of the war

he hoped to retain his devotion;--and, through dread of the Suffet,



Narr' Havas withdrew.

But he bore himself haughtily towards the Hundred. He changed their



arrangements. He demanded privileges for his men, and placed them on

important posts; thus the Barbarians stared when they perceived



Numidians on the towers.

The surprise of the Carthaginians was greater still when three hundred



of their own people, who had been made prisoners during the Sicilian

war, arrived on board an old Punic trireme. Hamilcar, in fact, had



secretly sent back to the Quirites the crews of the Latin vessels,




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