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But I hoped that the tarns, finding themselves out of the sight of land, might accommodate themselves to the experience. - (Raiders of Gor, Chapter 17, Sentence #321)

Perhaps they would not leave the ship. Perhaps they would go mad with rage or fear. I knew tarns had destroyed riders who had attempted to ride them out over Thassa from the shore. But I hoped that the tarns, finding themselves out of the sight of land, might accommodate themselves to the experience. I was hoping that, in the strange intelligence of animals, it would be the departure from land, and not the mere positioning of being out of the sight of land, that would be counter-instinctual for the great birds. Doubtless I would soon know. I leaped down to the saddle of the unhooded tarn. - (Raiders of Gor)