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| 17 | 153 | The prehensile, appendage of the View more quotes about normal">normal Kur is six digited. |
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| 17 | 150 | They hold the human, unfortunately, in no such regard. |
| 17 | 151 | It will be noted that the military arrangements of the Kurii are based on the number twelve or divisors and multiples of twelve. |
| 17 | 152 | Kurii use, I understand, a base-twelve mathematics. |
| 17 | 153 | The prehensile, appendage of the normal Kur is six digited. |
| 17 | 154 | Sometimes the foraging squads of the Kurii had been accompanied by trained sleen, often four of them. |
| 17 | 155 | Twice, in my reconnoitering, I had had to kill such beasts. |
| 17 | 156 | The sleen have various uses; some are merely used as watch animals or guard animals; others are used as points in the advance of squads, some trained to attack putative enemies, others to return to the squad, thus alerting it to the presence of a possible enemy; others are even more highly trained, and are used to hunt humans; of the human-hunting sleen, some are trained merely to kill, and others to hurry the quarry to a Kurii holding area; one type of sleen is trained to destroy males and herd females, distinguishing between the sexes by scent. |