，_XXX. Close of the Spanish War.-Hanno,， Mago's lieutenant, naa peen despatched during this_ time,，with a small body. of Africans to hire troops among the Spanish tribes, and succeeded 拼粤s哪4000 men.，Soon. afterwards, his， camp wasr 11 - . _" captured Uy L. 1Vlarclus most or nis men were Kulect in the assault, some during their flight by the pursuing cavalrv: Hanno J， himself escaped with a handful of his men. Whilst this :was going on at the Baetis Laelius sailed westward and brought up at Carteia, a city situated on that part of the coast where the Straits begin to widen into the ocean Some men had come into the Roman camp with a volun offer to surrender the city of Gades, but the plot was discovered before it was ripe. All the conspirators were arrested and Mago handed them over to the custodv of Adherbal for conveyance to Cart h oCarth age. Adherbal placed them on board a quinquereme which was sent on in advance as it was a slower vessel than the eight triremes with which he followed shortlyafter.The quinquerem e was j ust entering the Straits when Laelius sailed out of the harbour of Carteia in another quinquereme followed oy芍even trl举平e冬:rie pore straight clown upon,.匆her甲, feeling quite sure that the quinquereme could not be MUM round. as it was caugnt oy the current sweeping through the channel. sed by this unsuspected attack. the Carthaginian general ShQ Uer ted for a few moments whether to follow his quinquereme turn his prows against the enemy. This hesitation put it out of his power to decline the contest, for they were within range of one another's missiles, and the enemy pressing on him on all sides. The strength of the tide vented them from steering their ships as they wished.There was no semblance of a naval battle, no freedom of action， no room for tactics or manoeuvres. The tidal currents completely dominated the action and carried the ships against own side and against the enemv indiscriminatelv. in of all the efforts of the rowers. You might see a ship was endeavouring to escape carried stern foremost against the victors, whilst the one nursumer It. if it got 1弓_J， an opposing current was swept back as though it were the in flight. And when they were actually engaged and one was making’for another in order to ram it, it would swerve from its course and receive a side-blow from the other's beak whilst the one which was coming broadside on would suddenly be swung round and present its prow. So the varying str uggle of the triremes went on, directed and controlled by Chance. The Roman quinquereme answered the helm better either because its weizht made it steadier. or because it had more banks of oars to cut through the waves. It sank two triremes, and swee ping rapidly past a third sheared off all the oars on one side. and it would have disabled the rert if Adherbal had not got clear away with the remaining five, and’crowding all reached Africa.