Book 10. (1 results) Tribesmen of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 1 | 461 | When the View more quotes about search">search is discontinued, after success or failure, these markers are destroyed, lest they be taken by travelers for water arrows, markers indicating the direction of water holes, underground cisterns or oases. |
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Book 10. (7 results) Tribesmen of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 1 | 458 | No one in the caravan departs from it by more than the length of the wheel's spoke, pertinent to the individual caravan. |
| 1 | 459 | The boy, for example, presumably, if he had his wits about him, would not follow the kaiila long enough on foot to place himself outside the "rim" of the "wheel". |
| 1 | 460 | As the "wheel" of men turns about its axis, the camp, at intervals the men draw arrows in the dirt or sand, or, if rocks are available, make arrows, pointing to the camp. |
| 1 | 461 | When the search is discontinued, after success or failure, these markers are destroyed, lest they be taken by travelers for water arrows, markers indicating the direction of water holes, underground cisterns or oases. |
| 1 | 462 | The caravan kaiila, incidentally, both those which are pack animals and those used as mounts for guards and warriors, are muchly belled. |
| 1 | 463 | This helps to keep the animals together, makes it easier to move in darkness, and in a country where, often, one cannot see more than a hundred yards to the next dune or plateau, is an important factor in survival. |
| 1 | 464 | If it were not for the caravan bells, the slow moving, otherwise generally silent caravans, might, unknowingly, pass within yards of men in desperate need of succor. |
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No one in the caravan departs from it by more than the length of the wheel's spoke, pertinent to the individual caravan.
The boy, for example, presumably, if he had his wits about him, would not follow the kaiila long enough on foot to place himself outside the "rim" of the "wheel".
As the "wheel" of men turns about its axis, the camp, at intervals the men draw arrows in the dirt or sand, or, if rocks are available, make arrows, pointing to the camp.
When the search is discontinued, after success or failure, these markers are destroyed, lest they be taken by travelers for water arrows, markers indicating the direction of water holes, underground cisterns or oases.
The caravan kaiila, incidentally, both those which are pack animals and those used as mounts for guards and warriors, are muchly belled.
This helps to keep the animals together, makes it easier to move in darkness, and in a country where, often, one cannot see more than a hundred yards to the next dune or plateau, is an important factor in survival.
If it were not for the caravan bells, the slow moving, otherwise generally silent caravans, might, unknowingly, pass within yards of men in desperate need of succor.
- (Tribesmen of Gor)