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The village had been deserted, perhaps, judging from the absence of crockery, household effects, and furnishings, even before it had been burned. - (Mercenaries of Gor, Chapter 2, Sentence #13)

They were blown to and fro, like dry, brittle fugitives, on the small, central commons between the huts. We had made our camp here, in the burnt, roofless, half-fallen ruins of one of the huts. It had given us shelter from the wind. The village had been deserted, perhaps, judging from the absence of crockery, household effects, and furnishings, even before it had been burned. It stood like most Gorean villages at the hub of its wheel of fields, the fields, striplike, spanning out from it like spokes. Most Gorean peasants live in such villages, many of them palisaded, which they leave in the morning to tend their fields, to which they return at night after their day's labors. The fields about this village, however, and near other villages, too, in this part of the country, were now untended. - (Mercenaries of Gor)