Book 6. (1 results) Raiders of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 8 | 104 | This was to prevent View more quotes about given">given barges from being boarded separately, where the warriors on one could not come to the aid of the other. |
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Book 6. (7 results) Raiders of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 8 | 101 | Silently Telima poled our small craft to the fourth barge. |
| 8 | 102 | The most of the warriors, we had noted, were concentrated in the first and the last barges. |
| 8 | 103 | The barges, during the afternoon, had been eased into a closer line, the stem of one lying abeam of the stern of the next, being made fast there by lines. |
| 8 | 104 | This was to prevent given barges from being boarded separately, where the warriors on one could not come to the aid of the other. |
| 8 | 105 | They had no way of knowing how many rencers might be in the marshes. |
| 8 | 106 | With this arrangement they had greater mobility of their forces, for men might leap, say, from the foredeck of one barge to the tiller deck of the other. |
| 8 | 107 | If boarding were attempted toward the center of the line, the boarding party could thus be crushed on both flanks by warriors pouring in from adjacent barges. |
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Silently Telima poled our small craft to the fourth barge.
The most of the warriors, we had noted, were concentrated in the first and the last barges.
The barges, during the afternoon, had been eased into a closer line, the stem of one lying abeam of the stern of the next, being made fast there by lines.
This was to prevent given barges from being boarded separately, where the warriors on one could not come to the aid of the other.
They had no way of knowing how many rencers might be in the marshes.
With this arrangement they had greater mobility of their forces, for men might leap, say, from the foredeck of one barge to the tiller deck of the other.
If boarding were attempted toward the center of the line, the boarding party could thus be crushed on both flanks by warriors pouring in from adjacent barges.
- (Raiders of Gor)