Still others covered with scales depended upon a swimming motion to go from place to place in their search for food, and gradually they populated the ocean with myriads of fishes.
Then a strange thing happened.
In a strange way, the Egyptians had come to believe that no soul could enter the realm of Osiris without the possession of the body which had been its place of residence in this world.
Unfortunately the messengers fell into the hands of the Romans and Hannibal waited in vain for further news until his brother's head, neatly packed in a basket, came rolling into his camp and told him of the fate of the last of the Carthaginian troops.