Book 9. (1 results) Marauders of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 4 | 38 | It is View more quotes about commonly">commonly relied on, however, only in unfamiliar waters. |
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Book 9. (7 results) Marauders of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 4 | 35 | The men of Torvaldsland do not use it. |
| 4 | 36 | They do not need it. |
| 4 | 37 | The sextant, however, correlated with sun and stars is not unknown to them. |
| 4 | 38 | It is commonly relied on, however, only in unfamiliar waters. |
| 4 | 39 | Even fog banks, and the feeding grounds of whales, and ice floes, in given seasons, in their own waters, give the men of Torvaldsland information as to their whereabouts, they utilizing such things as easily, as unconsciously, as a peasant might a mountain, or a hunter a river. |
| 4 | 40 | The ships of the men of Torvaldsland are swift. |
| 4 | 41 | In a day, a full Gorean day of twenty Ahn, with a fair wind they can cover from two hundred to two hundred and fifty pasangs. |
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The men of Torvaldsland do not use it.
They do not need it.
The sextant, however, correlated with sun and stars is not unknown to them.
It is commonly relied on, however, only in unfamiliar waters.
Even fog banks, and the feeding grounds of whales, and ice floes, in given seasons, in their own waters, give the men of Torvaldsland information as to their whereabouts, they utilizing such things as easily, as unconsciously, as a peasant might a mountain, or a hunter a river.
The ships of the men of Torvaldsland are swift.
In a day, a full Gorean day of twenty Ahn, with a fair wind they can cover from two hundred to two hundred and fifty pasangs.
- (Marauders of Gor)