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What was special about this ship? Certainly it had already been looted, its four cabins and its many smaller holds, or compartments. - (Mariners of Gor, Chapter 13, Sentence #49)

This sort of thing usually occurs when a ship is offshore, say a pasang or so, and in the vicinity of Bazi or Schendi. I did not know why Tarl Cabot had come to this ship, as there were others. Why this ship and not another? I did know that he and Lord Nishida had surveyed it, from a ship's boat, this morning, as they had others, on other mornings, with the glass of the Builders. What was special about this ship? Certainly it had already been looted, its four cabins and its many smaller holds, or compartments. Aëtius had kept Tersites sequestered in his cabin, fearing to let him be seen on deck. The crew, and the armsmen, might kill him. Always were they uneasy in the presence of the shipwright, fearing his eccentricities, the strangeness of his mind, the unpredictable and erratic exercises of his power, his officious negligence and scorn of customary precautions and ceremonies, his omission of traditional offerings, placations, and petitions, his pride, his insolence, his defiance, his seemingly gratuitous challenge to mighty Thassa, a challenge, as it were, to war, pitting his ship, a splendid artifact, but no more, against vast, deep, surgent, capricious, mighty Thassa. - (Mariners of Gor)