The distribution, meanwhile, continued, and the Suffet found expedients to remove every obstacle.
The Greeks tried to quibble about differences in currency, but he furnished them with such explanations that they retired without a murmur.

The Negroes demanded white shells such as are used for trading in the interior of Africa, but when he offered to send to Carthage for them they accepted money like the rest.
But the Balearians had been promised something better, namely, women.
The Suffet replied that a whole caravan of maidens was expected for them, but the journey was long and would require six moons more.

When they were fat and well rubbed with benjamin they should be sent in ships to the ports of the Balearians.
Suddenly Zarxas, now handsome and vigorous, leaped like a mountebank upon the shoulders of his friends and cried: "Have you reserved any of them for the corpses ?" at the same time pointing to the gate of Khamon in Carthage.
The brass plates with which it was furnished from top to bottom shone in the sun's latest fires, and the Barbarians believed that they could discern on it a trail of blood.

Every time that Gisco wished to speak their shouts began again.

At last he descended with measured steps, and shut himself up in his tent.
When he left it at sunrise his interpreters, who used to sleep outside, did not stir; they lay on their backs with their eyes fixed, their tongues between their teeth, and their faces of a bluish colour.