direction until they had completely cleared it of foes.

When the work was done the breathless and exhausted troops gathered
outside, in the light of the moon. More than half their number
had fallen; scarce one but was bleeding from wounds of arrow or
javelin. The plain beyond was thickly dotted to the foot of the
hills with the bodies of the natives who had been cut up by the
Numidian horse or trampled by the elephants, while the grove within
was thickly strewn with their bodies.

As there was no fear of a renewal of the attack, Hamilcar ordered
the men to fall out of ranks, and the hours until daybreak were
passed in extracting arrows and binding up wounds, and in assisting
their comrades who were found to be still living in the grove.
Any natives still breathing were instantly slain.

Hamilcar found that a party of the enemy had made their way into
his own camp. His tent had been hastily plundered, but most of
the effects were found in the morning scattered over the ground
between the groves and the hills, having been thrown away in their
flight by the natives when the horsemen burst out of the wood in
pursuit. Of the slaves and attendants several had been killed, but
the greater portion had, when Hamilcar left the grove with the
troops, climbed up into trees, and remained there concealed until
the rout of the assailants.

It was found in the morning that over one hundred and fifty of
the three hundred Carthaginian troops had fallen, and that four
hundred of the natives had been slain either in the grove or in
the pursuit by cavalry.