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I had been amazed to learn that the brine pits, in effect a network of small subterranean marine seas, were not devoid of life. - (Tribesmen of Gor, Chapter 16, Sentence #42)

The steersman, when not attending to his sweep, carried a lance. We were not alone in the pits. Hand over hand, I drew the cone through the sludge toward the raft. I had been amazed to learn that the brine pits, in effect a network of small subterranean marine seas, were not devoid of life. I had expected them to be sterile bodies of water, from the absence of sunlight, precluding basic photosynthesis and the beginning of a food chain, and the high salt content of the fluid. A human body, for example, will not sink in the water. This is one of the reasons, too, it is particularly desirable, in this environment, to weight the raft poles, to help counter the unusual buoyancy of the saline fluid. - (Tribesmen of Gor)