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A tarn cavalry was clearly intended, which was, I suspected, intended to be a decisive arm in some projected campaign. - (Mariners of Gor, Chapter 9, Sentence #69)

Too, of course, such women are a form of wealth, as they may be sold, traded, bartered, given as gifts, and such. I did not doubt but what such goods would figure in the plans of the Pani. Of tarns, I had been told, as mentioned, that there had been something in the neighborhood of two hundred on board when the ship of Tersites had entered Thassa from the Alexandra. A tarn cavalry was clearly intended, which was, I suspected, intended to be a decisive arm in some projected campaign. I gathered that tarns might be unknown at the World's End; else why would they be aboard? The Pani seemed to have no shortage of resources, given their financing of the ship of Tersites, the hiring of hundreds of mercenaries, the purchasing of slaves, and such. Thus, if tarns were common at the World's End it would be more expeditious to obtain them there. If they were not known at the World's End, then their judicious application in battle, reconnaissance, raids, and such, might indeed prove formidable. - (Mariners of Gor)