Chapter Nine
The Seventh Fleet landed on the coast of Dalmatian on a rainy afternoon in August, 215 BCE.
After running three of the Greek ships up onto the beach, Sarge organized two dozen men to chop down trees to build a log pier.
Once this twenty-meter-long wharf was completed, the larger ships were able to dock and unload their cargo.
Cateri and a dozen other women took down one of the large sails from a Roman Five and, with ropes and axes, used standing trees to construct a huge tent.
They soon had four fires going, with cauldrons of stew cooking over the flames.
The tent provided shelter for the workers to get out of the rain for a while and have a hot meal before going back to the hard work of unloading the ships.
Boys were assigned to tend the herds of animals as they came a
