Book 25. (7 results) Magicians of Gor (Context Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 8 | 29 | He View more quotes about laughed">laughed. |
| 8 | 30 | To be sure, we knew, generically, what was being borne. |
| 8 | 31 | It was not difficult to tell. |
| 8 | 32 | Normal goods, exports of bar iron, and such, do not move in the city in such numbers. |
| 8 | 33 | It is true, of course, that sometimes wagons would congregate at meeting places near gates, the wagons, say, of various manufacturers and merchants, and then travel on the roads in convoys, as a protection against brigandage, but in such a case the wagons, having different points of origin, would not form their convoy until in the vicinity of the gates, and, indeed, sometimes outside them, in order to avoid blocking streets. |
| 8 | 34 | But the formation of such convoys, too, are usually advertised on the public boards, this information being of interest to various folks, say, merchants who might wish to ship goods, teamsters, guards, and such, who might wish employment, and folks wishing to book passage. |
| 8 | 35 | Sometimes, incidentally, rich merchants can manage a convoy by themselves, but even so they will usually accommodate the wagons of others in their convoys. |
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He laughed.
To be sure, we knew, generically, what was being borne.
It was not difficult to tell.
Normal goods, exports of bar iron, and such, do not move in the city in such numbers.
It is true, of course, that sometimes wagons would congregate at meeting places near gates, the wagons, say, of various manufacturers and merchants, and then travel on the roads in convoys, as a protection against brigandage, but in such a case the wagons, having different points of origin, would not form their convoy until in the vicinity of the gates, and, indeed, sometimes outside them, in order to avoid blocking streets.
But the formation of such convoys, too, are usually advertised on the public boards, this information being of interest to various folks, say, merchants who might wish to ship goods, teamsters, guards, and such, who might wish employment, and folks wishing to book passage.
Sometimes, incidentally, rich merchants can manage a convoy by themselves, but even so they will usually accommodate the wagons of others in their convoys.
- (Magicians of Gor)