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At seventy Ihn I tensed, preparing to slash my hand downward, at which signal the oars would be thrust outboard, be poised, would enter the water together, and the keleustes, his mallet already lifted, would deliver his first blow to the metal-headed drum. - (Avengers of Gor, Chapter 51, Sentence #85)

I raised my hand, and began to count the eighty Ihn which compose an Ehn. All eyes were upon my raised hand. The nearest ship was now within twenty yards of the Tesephone, preparing to draw alongside. At seventy Ihn I tensed, preparing to slash my hand downward, at which signal the oars would be thrust outboard, be poised, would enter the water together, and the keleustes, his mallet already lifted, would deliver his first blow to the metal-headed drum. A moment before the eightieth Ihn, a gigantic snakelike form with a diameter of some ten feet burst some forty feet upward from the water like some living geyser, and, in the midst of screams and tumult, fell heavily, laterally, across the deck of the enemy ship, and wound itself, with incredible rapidity, coil after coil, about the ship. After the third coil the great head of the beast caught the left side of the stem deck in its fanged jaws, and bit into it, as though to fasten itself in living prey, as though the ship might be alive, and attempt to free itself, splintering planks and railings. We then, to our terror, watched the ship being crushed in those mighty coils, board by board, plank by plank, until the water was filled with debris and men. - (Avengers of Gor)