When he could not ravage the fields, Matho would cast stones into them to render them sterile.
He urged Autaritus and Spendius with repeated messages to make haste.
But the Suffet's operations were incomprehensible.

He encamped at Eidous, Monchar, and Tehent successively; some scouts believed that they saw him in the neighbourhood of Ischiil, near the frontiers of Narr' Havas, and it was reported that he had crossed the river above Tebourba as though to return to Carthage.

Scarcely was he in one place when he removed to another.

The routes that he followed always remained unknown.
The Suffet preserved his advantages without offering battle, and while pursued by the Barbarians seemed to be leading them.
These marches and counter marches were still more fatiguing to the Carthaginians, and Hamilcar's forces, receiving no reinforcements, diminished from day to day.

The country people were now more backward in bringing him provisions.