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This arrangement did present, of course, a relatively porous perimeter which, by individuals, or small groups, might be penetrated with relative ease. Indeed, at certain points, there seemed to be a traffic of sorts from outside the camp into the camp, and from within the camp to the outside, this seeming to consist mostly of local peasants vending millet or vulos, herdsmen with a verr or a tarsk or two, some sellers of salted fish, for the sea was not far away, peddlers with their carts, various sorts of craftsmen, and such. Occasionally the master of a merchant wagon would trundle in, with a trove of silk, and clothing, sometimes a fine sword. Occasionally a peasant would appear with a daughter to rent or sell. The procession of which I have spoken was ordered as follows. First came Arashi, the bandit, swathed with ropes, two rope leashes on his neck, each in the grasp of a glaive-bearing Ashigaru, two of the foragers first met in the inn. Behind Arashi came the third Ashigaru, the third of the foragers, and he, particularly in the vicinity of the camp, would poke Arashi in the back with the point of his glaive. - (Rebels of Gor)