When the latter was full of blood they dipped their arms into it.

Then Narr' Havas spread out his hand upon Matho's breast, and Matho did the same to Narr' Havas.

They repeated the stain upon the canvas of their tents.
Afterwards they passed the night in eating, and the remaining portions of the meat were burnt together with the skin, bones, horns, and hoofs.
Matho had been greeted with great shouting when he had come back bearing the veil of the goddess; even those who were not of the Chanaanitish religion were made by their vague enthusiasm to feel the arrival of a genius.

As to seizing the zaimph, no one thought of it, for the mysterious manner in which he had acquired it was sufficient in the minds of the Barbarians to justify its possession; such were the thoughts of the soldiers of the African race.

The others, whose hatred was not of such long standing, did not know how to make up their minds.
If they had had ships they would immediately have departed.
Spendius, Narr' Havas, and Matho despatched men to all the tribes on Punic soil.
Carthage was sapping the strength of these nations.