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Travelers, coming and going, from various points, merchants, and others, shelter and refresh themselves at inns, and, accordingly, inns are likely to be repositories of information and what might purport to be information, repositories of rumors, news, reports, and conjectures. - (Rebels of Gor, Chapter 30, Sentence #51)

To be sure, we had been unable to obtain much intelligence from the villages. We had finally, after avoiding villages for three days, approached this inn. It lay in the territory of one of Lord Yamada's daimyos, on a road leading to the northern road. Travelers, coming and going, from various points, merchants, and others, shelter and refresh themselves at inns, and, accordingly, inns are likely to be repositories of information and what might purport to be information, repositories of rumors, news, reports, and conjectures. What we had not counted on at the inn was that we might encounter foragers of Yamada in its precincts. We had not, of course, encountered them further west. Fortunately this encounter, to this point, had proved not only innocuous, but propitious with respect to our needs. - (Rebels of Gor)