Book 32. (1 results) Smugglers of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 15 | 474 | One View more quotes about thing">thing seemed clear; when the ship was ready, which should be soon, we were to be joined by the armsmen and work crews from Tarncamp. |
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Book 32. (7 results) Smugglers of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 15 | 471 | They were not yet in place. |
| 15 | 472 | Not even the great rudder was hung. |
| 15 | 473 | What was the meaning of such a ship? For what work, what voyage, might it be intended? It was not a warship in any common sense; yet, interestingly, it nested six galleys, three to a side, which might be independently launched, and those galleys, I gathered, given their rams and large, crescent-like blades at their bows, suggested aggression and menace. |
| 15 | 474 | One thing seemed clear; when the ship was ready, which should be soon, we were to be joined by the armsmen and work crews from Tarncamp. |
| 15 | 475 | Indeed, the tarn cavalry, trained toward the west, close to Tarncamp, was also to join us before we embarked. |
| 15 | 476 | Why would tarns be needed? What purpose might they serve? Too, even though the vessel was large, it would carry hundreds of times the men required to manage it. |
| 15 | 477 | Better to transport troops, I thought, would be smaller ships, a fleet of such. |
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They were not yet in place.
Not even the great rudder was hung.
What was the meaning of such a ship? For what work, what voyage, might it be intended? It was not a warship in any common sense; yet, interestingly, it nested six galleys, three to a side, which might be independently launched, and those galleys, I gathered, given their rams and large, crescent-like blades at their bows, suggested aggression and menace.
One thing seemed clear; when the ship was ready, which should be soon, we were to be joined by the armsmen and work crews from Tarncamp.
Indeed, the tarn cavalry, trained toward the west, close to Tarncamp, was also to join us before we embarked.
Why would tarns be needed? What purpose might they serve? Too, even though the vessel was large, it would carry hundreds of times the men required to manage it.
Better to transport troops, I thought, would be smaller ships, a fleet of such.
- (Smugglers of Gor)