Salammbo mused beneath her veils, and in spite of the heat did not lay them aside through fear of soiling her beautiful garments.
At regular distances stood towers built by the Carthaginians for the purpose of keeping watch upon the tribes.

They entered these for the sake of the shade, and then set out again.
For prudence sake they had made a wide detour the day before.

But they met with no one just now; the region being a sterile one, the Barbarians had not passed that way.
Gradually the devastation began again.

Sometimes a piece of mosaic would be displayed in the centre of a field, the sole remnant of a vanished mansion; and the leafless olive trees looked at a distance like large bushes of thorns.

They passed through a town in which houses were burnt to the ground.