Libyans. The inhabitants of that province inhabiting the seaports
and coasts near Carthage were a mixture of Phoenician and native
blood. They were ever impatient of the supremacy of Carthage,
and their rebellions were frequent and often dangerous. After
the suppression of these insurrections, Carthage, sensible of the
danger arising from the turbulence of her neighbours, deported
great numbers of them to form colonies. Vast numbers were sent up
into the Soudan, which was then one of the most important possessions
of the republic. The most extensive, however, of these forced
emigrations was the great colony sent to found Carthagena, which
had thus in a very few years, under the fostering genius of the
great Hamilcar, become a great and prosperous city.

Carthage itself had thus suddenly sprung into existence. After
many internal troubles the democracy of Tyre had gained the upper
hand in that city; and finding their position intolerable, the
whole of the aristocracy decided to emigrate, and, sailing with a
great fleet under their queen Dido or Elisa -- for she was called
by both names -- founded Carthage. This triumph of the democracy
in Tyre, as might be expected, proved the ruin of that city. Very
rapidly she fell from the lofty position she had held, and her place
in the world and her proud position as Queen of the Seas was very
speedily taken by Carthage.

The original Libyan colony of Carthagena had been very largely
increased by subsequent emigration, and the populace presented
an appearance very similar to that of the mother city, save that
instead of the swarthy desert tribesmen, with their passive face
and air of proud indifference, mingling with the population of the
town, there was in Carthagena a large admixture of native Iberians,