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sovereign was delivered, either alive or dead, into the hands of

the Romans. Doubtful of the event, Gelimer had given secret

orders that a part of his treasure should be transported to

Spain, where he hoped to find a secure refuge at the court of the

king of the Visigoths. But these intentions were disappointed by

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treachery, and the indefatigable pursuit of his

enemies, who intercepted his flight from the sea-shore, and

chased the unfortunate monarch, with some faithful followers, to

the inaccessible mountain of Papua, ^28 in the inland country of

Numidia. He was immediately besieged by Pharas, an officer whose

truth and sobriety were the more applauded, as such qualities

could seldom be found among the Heruli, the most corrupt of the

Barbarian tribes. To his vigilance Belisarius had intrusted this

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charge and, after a bold attempt to scale the mountain,

in which he lost a hundred and ten soldiers, Pharas expected,

during a winter siege, the operation of distress and famine on

the mind of the Vandal king. From the softest habits of

pleasure, from the unbounded command of industry and wealth, he

was reduced to share the poverty of the Moors, ^29 supportable

only to themselves by their ignorance of a happier condition. In

their rude hovels, of mud and hurdles, which confined the smoke

and excluded the light, they promiscuously slept on the ground,

perhaps on a sheep-skin, with their wives, their children, and

their cattle. Sordid and scanty were their garments; the use of

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was unknown; and their oaten or barley cakes,

imperfectly baked in the ashes, were devoured almost in a crude

state, by the hungry savages. The health of Gelimer must have

sunk under these strange and unwonted hardships, from whatsoever

cause they had been endured; but hi