Book 10. (1 results) Tribesmen of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 1 | 419 | Even numbers are View more quotes about carried">carried, of course, that the load is balanced. |
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Book 10. (7 results) Tribesmen of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 1 | 416 | It was brought from secret pits and mines, actually, deep in the interior, bound in heavy cylinders on the backs of pack kaiila. |
| 1 | 417 | Each cylinder, roped to others, weighed in the neighborhood of ten stone, or some forty pounds, a Gorean "Weight". |
| 1 | 418 | A strong kaiila could carry sixteen such cylinders, but the normal load was ten. |
| 1 | 419 | Even numbers are carried, of course, that the load is balanced. |
| 1 | 420 | A poorly loaded kaiila can carry far less weight than one on whom the burden is intelligently distributed. |
| 1 | 421 | "Ibn Saran, in the past months, has heard an unusual thing," said Samos. |
| 1 | 422 | "I learned of this from a captain, one known to him, with whom he spoke recently upon the salt wharf". |
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It was brought from secret pits and mines, actually, deep in the interior, bound in heavy cylinders on the backs of pack kaiila.
Each cylinder, roped to others, weighed in the neighborhood of ten stone, or some forty pounds, a Gorean "Weight".
A strong kaiila could carry sixteen such cylinders, but the normal load was ten.
Even numbers are carried, of course, that the load is balanced.
A poorly loaded kaiila can carry far less weight than one on whom the burden is intelligently distributed.
"Ibn Saran, in the past months, has heard an unusual thing," said Samos.
"I learned of this from a captain, one known to him, with whom he spoke recently upon the salt wharf".
- (Tribesmen of Gor)