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The four chief haruspexes of the peoples remained at the huge central altar, to which a white bosk was being slowly led. - (Nomads of Gor, Chapter 13, Sentence #178)

I gathered that reading the signs was a subtle business, calling for sophisticated interpretation and the utmost delicacy and judgment. Even as we made our way back to the kaiila I could hear two more haruspexes crying out that they had found livers that were clearly unfavorable. Clerks, with parchment scrolls, were circulating among the altars, presumably, I would guess, noting the names of haruspexes, their peoples, and their findings. The four chief haruspexes of the peoples remained at the huge central altar, to which a white bosk was being slowly led. It was toward dark when Kamchak and I reached the slave wagon to buy our bottle of paga. On the way we passed a girl, a girl from Cos taken hundreds of pasangs away in a raid on a caravan bound for Ar. She had been bound across a wagon wheel lying on the ground, her body over its hub. - (Nomads of Gor)