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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Salammbo by Gustave Flaubert: and half the Numidians had perished when Barca came up.
The exhausted Mercenaries could not withstand his troops. They retired
in good order to the mountain of the Hot Springs. The Suffet was
prudent enough not to pursue them. He directed his course to the
mouths of the Macaras.
Tunis was his; but it was now nothing but a heap of smoking rubbish.
The ruins fell through the breaches in the walls to the centre of the
plain; quite in the background, between the shores of the gulf, the
corpses of the elephants drifting before the wind conflicted, like an
archipelago of black rocks floating on the water.
Narr' Havas had drained his forests of these animals, taking young and
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