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Many of those were painted green, that they might be difficult to detect on the billows of Thassa, until, mast down and oar- propelled, it was perhaps too late. - (Smugglers of Gor, Chapter 23, Sentence #143)

I looked back, again, at the ship. It was quite different from the other Gorean vessels I had seen, which tended to be numerous, graceful, slender, and beautiful, low in the water, long in keel, and narrow in beam, even the "round ships". And the vessels of war were like knives in the water, swift, low, multiply oared, and concave prowed, armed with deck engines, rams, and crescent-like blades, which might shear away timbers and oars. Many of those were painted green, that they might be difficult to detect on the billows of Thassa, until, mast down and oar- propelled, it was perhaps too late. How different then was the ship of Tersites. Doubtless it was seaworthy, but it was broad and towering, six-masted, and single- ruddered. It would be like a city at sea, a dangerous, armed city, walled with wood, with sails which might challenge clouds. - (Smugglers of Gor)