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Some, crossed in the streets, had proved more than capable of defending themselves, with their unusual softly curved blades, one long, one short. - (Smugglers of Gor, Chapter 4, Sentence #202)

Some alleged the unusual buyers were Tuchuks, but others denied this. The shading of their skin and the cast of their eyes suggested Tuchuk blood, but they were not armed as Tuchuks, and seemed, too, in so far as such things might be ascertained, unfamiliar with bosk, kaiila, and the terrains of the south. Some said, too, they were taller than Tuchuks, and were more spare, more sedate, more studied, more formal, more withdrawn, more graceful, and perhaps more latently intense. Some, crossed in the streets, had proved more than capable of defending themselves, with their unusual softly curved blades, one long, one short. They had attracted attention, for their apparent wealth, for buying slaves and hiring ships, and taking men into fee, many of them refugees, armed mercenaries, escaped from Ar, given the sudden, devastating, bloody restoration of Marlenus, Ubar of Ar, sometimes spoken of as the Ubar of Ubars. These ships, it was said, would coast north. Their purpose was obscure. - (Smugglers of Gor)