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Sometimes I even neglected the trail altogether and leaped from one cliff to another in improvised shortcuts. - (Priest-Kings of Gor, Chapter 33, Sentence #6)

Whereas it had taken four days for me to climb to the lair of Priest-Kings in the Sardar it was on the morning of the second day that Vika and I sighted the remains of the great gate, fallen, and the palisade, now little more than broken and uprooted timbers. The speed of our return journey was not due primarily to the fact that we were now on the whole descending, though this helped, but rather to the gravitational reduction which made it possible for me, Vika in my arms, to move with a swift disregard for what, under more normal conditions, would have been at times a dangerous, tortuous trail. Several times, in fact, I had simply leaped from one portion of the trail to float more than a hundred feet downward to land lightly on another portion of the trail, a point which, on foot, might have been separated by more than five pasangs from the point above from which I had leaped. Sometimes I even neglected the trail altogether and leaped from one cliff to another in improvised shortcuts. It was late in the morning of the second day, about the time that we sighted the black gate, that the gravitational reduction reached its maximum. "It is the end, Cabot," said Vika. "Yes," I said. - (Priest-Kings of Gor)