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And behind the catapult was a vat, filled, from the odor, with burning pitch. - (Mariners of Gor, Chapter 16, Sentence #197)

I also heard a striking at the sides of the great ship, like a rain of wood, and smelled burning pitch. Each of the small boats, as far as I could tell, was similarly equipped. Each grapnel, with its rope and chain, was launched from a small engine, a tiny catapult, mounted between the benches. And behind the catapult was a vat, filled, from the odor, with burning pitch. Archers were dipping arrows, whose shaft, behind the point, was wrapped in cloth, which cloth was then saturated with flaming pitch, which arrows, one after another, were then being fired into the hull. This, doubtless, was what had been determined earlier by Cabot, with the glass of the Builders. One could not well cut the chain behind the grapnels, but axes cut at the rails, and several of the grapnels, given the stress of climbers, broke loose. - (Mariners of Gor)