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While Haruki kept watch, Tajima and I kicked, loosened, and drew up several of the tent pegs or stakes, at the back of the tent, which would produce a sagging at that point. - (Rebels of Gor, Chapter 42, Sentence #42)

It was a large tent. Within it were housed some forty slaves. The tent, as most such large, long tents depended on several poles to support its roof, and was further secured by a number of tent pegs, or, as the Americans will have it, stakes, and ropes outside. While Haruki kept watch, Tajima and I kicked, loosened, and drew up several of the tent pegs or stakes, at the back of the tent, which would produce a sagging at that point. These tent pegs, or stakes, were large, pointed, rounded pieces of wood, most of which were something like a foot and a half in length, and two to three horts in diameter. I mention these measurements as it may make more clear the application to which they were shortly to be put. When two Ashigaru came about the tent to investigate the local collapse of canvas they encountered Haruki, apparently bewildered, who called their attention to the loose ropes and sagging canvas, not that this situation really required his exposition. - (Rebels of Gor)