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In the vicinity of the guard, prior to my withdrawal, I had noted in the corridor, and in the interior passage, that denied to me, alternating residues of moisture, quite possibly, given the spacing, the remnants of tracks, but unusual tracks, perhaps those of a large, unshod, shuffling creature. - (Rebels of Gor, Chapter 16, Sentence #117)

The daimyo was no longer in sight. Apparently he had been admitted into those precincts access to which had recently been denied to me. I then continued on my way. In the vicinity of the guard, prior to my withdrawal, I had noted in the corridor, and in the interior passage, that denied to me, alternating residues of moisture, quite possibly, given the spacing, the remnants of tracks, but unusual tracks, perhaps those of a large, unshod, shuffling creature. Doubtless this evidence might have been misinterpreted in many ways, particularly in the Pani islands, except for one detail. When the fur is thick, and matted, and soaked with rain, it has an odor which, once experienced, is not likely to be mistaken. It was a scent, and a sort of scent, with which I was hitherto well acquainted, from various venues, from the delta of the Vosk outside Port Kar, from the hills of bleak Torvaldsland, the wastes and oases of the Tahari, the expanses of the Barrens, the jungles of the Ua, such places, even from the dens and forests of a steel world. - (Rebels of Gor)