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Rhone (search for this): book 3, chapter 42
The Passage of the Rhone
Meanwhile Hannibal had reached the river and was
Hannibal reaches the Rhone.
trying to get across it where the stream was
single, at a distance of four days' march
from the sea. He did all he could to
make the natives living by the river friendly to him, and
purchased from them all their canoes of hollow trunks, and
wherries, of which there were a large number, owing to the
extensive sea traffic of the inhabitants of the Rhone valley.
He got from them also the timber sRhone.
trying to get across it where the stream was
single, at a distance of four days' march
from the sea. He did all he could to
make the natives living by the river friendly to him, and
purchased from them all their canoes of hollow trunks, and
wherries, of which there were a large number, owing to the
extensive sea traffic of the inhabitants of the Rhone valley.
He got from them also the timber suited to the construction
of these canoes; and so in two days had an innumerable
supply of transports, every soldier seeking to be independent
of his neighbour, and to have the means of crossing in his own
hands. But now a large multitude of barbarians collected on
the other side of the stream to hinder the passage of the Carthaginians. When Hannibal saw them, he came to the conclusion
that it would be impossible either to force a passage in
the face of so large a body of the enemy, or to rem