Book 10. (1 results) Tribesmen of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 1 | 420 | A poorly loaded View more quotes about kaiila">kaiila can carry far less weight than one on whom the burden is intelligently distributed. |
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Book 10. (7 results) Tribesmen of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 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". |
| 1 | 423 | Samos was first in the Council of Captains of Port Kar, which body was sovereign in the city. |
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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".
Samos was first in the Council of Captains of Port Kar, which body was sovereign in the city.
- (Tribesmen of Gor)