without orders dust as tnougn they were snipwrecxea ana escapea to land without arms and in the utmost disorder. 。Situation访Carthage.--VN the disenzbarkation 'was cc;nnleted.the Romans measu out a site for their 望份p on some rising; ground close ht of a hos斑e 且eet, Ioilowea by the bustle and created consternation and alarm on the coast, but in the cities as well. Not only were the roads filled everywhere by crowds of men and troops of women and children, but the peasantry were driving their live stock inland, so that you would say that Africa was being suddenly depopulated. The terror which these fu梦tives created in the cities was greater even·than what they themselves felt especially in Carthage, where the confusion wasalmost almostas great as if it had been actuall y captured. S mce the days of the consuls M.Atilius Regulus and L. Manlius, almost fifty years ago, they had never seen a Roman arm y other than those employed on raiding expeditions, who picked up what they could in the fields and always got country. men could assemble together to meet them. This made the excitement and alarm in the ci ty all the greater. was neither an effective army nor oppose to Scipio. Hasdrubal, the son of Uzsgo, was by far the most prominent man in the State, distinguished alike by his birth, his military reputation and his wealth, and now by his connexion with royalty. But the Carthaginians had not forgotten that he had been defeated and routed in several battles by this very Scipio, and that as a general he was no more a match for him than the irregular levies which made up his force were a match for the army Gf Rome. There was a general call to arms, as though they were anticipating an immediate assault;the gates were hastily closed, troops stationed on the walls, outposts and sentinels posted, and the night was passed under arms. _The next day, a body of cavalry, i ooo strong, who had been sent down to the sea to reconnoitre and harass the Romans the disembarkation came upon the Roman outposts. meanwh诲，after sending the fleet to Utica, had advanceif a short distance from the shore and seized the nearest heights, where be stationed some of his cavalry as outposts;the rest he sent to plunder the fields.