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They were not intimately involved in the hide traffic and, if they had been, as merchants, their procedures, initially, at any rate, would have been mercantile and not military. - (Savages of Gor, Chapter 5, Sentence #141)

Considering the game presumably available in the Barrens there were several more wagons in the lines than would have seemed called for. When the lines and wagons had passed I emerged from the rocks and, at a distance, followed them toward Kailiauk. The merchants of Port Olni, of course, would not be sustaining the enormous expense of such an expedition. They were not intimately involved in the hide traffic and, if they had been, as merchants, their procedures, initially, at any rate, would have been mercantile and not military. They would surely have tried, at least in the beginning, to work through local traders or, say, Dust Legs themselves. I had, in my mind, no doubt as to what source on Gor had both the motivation and resources to mount such an expedition. Similarly I had little doubt as to who were the occupants of certain of the closed wagons in the lines. - (Savages of Gor)