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| 39 | 301 | The guide-View more quotes about ropes">ropes, or reins, of the tarn, as the Kinyanpi fashion them, seem clearly to be based on the jaw ropes used generally in the Barrens by the red savages to control kaiila. |
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| 39 | 298 | "Withdraw," I told her. |
| 39 | 299 | I went forward and seized the guide-ropes of the tarn, near the beak. |
| 39 | 300 | It shook its head. |
| 39 | 301 | The guide-ropes, or reins, of the tarn, as the Kinyanpi fashion them, seem clearly to be based on the jaw ropes used generally in the Barrens by the red savages to control kaiila. |
| 39 | 302 | This suggests that the Kinyanpi had probably domesticated kaiila before tarns and that their domestication of the tarn was achieved independently of white practice, as exemplified, say, by the tarnsmen of such cities as Thentis. |
| 39 | 303 | The common guidance apparatus for tarns in most cities is an arrangement involving two major rings and six straps. |
| 39 | 304 | The one-strap is drawn for ascent, and the four-strap for descent, for example. |