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Who would risk their lives on a blind ship? Who would be so foolish as to take such a ship to sea? The eyes of the seven ships were blackened over with paint, presumably administered from small boats in the night, possibly by means of paint-soaked rags or sponges fastened to poles. - (Avengers of Gor, Chapter 23, Sentence #39)

It is then that it comes alive. On the morning the corsair fleet, with its seven ships, was to depart the harbor at Mytilene in pursuit of the three Brundisium merchantmen, superstitious terror gripped savage crews. Consternation reigned. Who would risk their lives on a blind ship? Who would be so foolish as to take such a ship to sea? The eyes of the seven ships were blackened over with paint, presumably administered from small boats in the night, possibly by means of paint-soaked rags or sponges fastened to poles. In any event, however this may have happened, the seven ships would remain in port while paint must be scraped away, wood sanded, smoothed, sealed, and refinished, and new eyes carefully painted. "Someone comes," said Clitus, rising, trident in hand, loosening the strands of his net. "He wears peasant brown," said Sakim. - (Avengers of Gor)