Supplies and some of its personnel aboard the powerful, plodding elephants which are a form of native transport dating back centuries to Hannibal during the First Punic War.(AP Photo/Horst Faas)

这是当地一种古老的运输方式，已经有数百年历史，可追溯到第一次布匿战争期间，当时的汉尼拔就曾使用大象。

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