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Book 1. (1 results) Tarnsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
20	18	Those members of the Caste of Assassins, the most hated caste on Gor, who had served Pa-Kur, were taken in chains down the Vosk to become galley slaves on the cargo ships that ply Gor's oceans.	10

Book 2. (1 results) Outlaw of Gor

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26	106	I have wondered about the Priest-Kings and their power, their ships and agents, their plans for their world and mine; but most importantly I must learn why my city was destroyed and its people scattered, why it is that no stone may stand upon another stone; and I must learn the fate of my friends, m...	10

Book 3. (28 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
29	9	Over it hung ten ships, perhaps of the sort used for surveillance on the surface, and in the nose of each of these ships there was mounted a conelike projection.	10
29	41	I knew nothing of the armament of the ships of Sarm and I knew I had only the silver tube in my own craft, a weapon far outclassed in destructive potential by the gravitational disrupters mounted in the ships of Sarm.	10
30	65	There were new ships flying in the Nest, I understood, ships that had been built by Misk's men and disks that had now been armored by those of Sarm.	10
35	34	The ships that had sped from the Sardar had now returned, for, as I had feared, they were not made welcome by the cities of Gor, nor by the Initiates, and those who had ridden the ships had not been accepted by their cities.	10
17	71	Patterns of small ships, not satellites, invisible from the ground and remotely controlled, carry the lenses and receptors which beam information to the Sardar.	10
29	23	I saw one man who lacked an arm, lying on the floor, groaning, the limb having been lost to the unseen beam of the ships above.	10
29	40	In less than a few Ihn I had brought the ship into the large Nest complex where the ten ships of Sarm still followed their grim, precise, destructive pattern, as placidly and methodically as one might paint lines on a surface or mow a lawn.	10
29	44	None of the ships of Sarm had apparently noted me.	10
29	57	Now the remaining six ships hovered closely together, disrupter cones radiating outward in different directions, but I was above them.	10
29	58	This time, should I dive again, I knew it would be impossible to conceal my position from them, for they would then know I was below them and at least one of the ships would be almost certain to cover me with its weapon.	10
29	60	Even now two of the ships were moving their place, one to cover the area beneath the small fleet and the other above.	10
29	62	The ceiling of the complex leapt away from above me and I found myself in the very center of the six ships, surrounded on the four sides, and above and below.	10
29	63	I could see the scanners mounted in the nose of the ships probing about.	10
29	65	From this distance I could see hatches in the ships, on the top, and there was sufficient oxygen in the complex to permit exposed visual observation, but none of the Priest-Kings peered out of any of the hatches.	10
29	74	My heart leaped! Ground fire! I could imagine Misk hastening to his tools and the vast assemblage of instrumentation in his shop, or perhaps sending an outraged Priest-King to some secret arsenal where lay a forbidden weapon, one to which Misk would never have had recourse were it not for the hideou...	10
29	75	The first ship to near the exit seemed to burst into a cloud of powder but the next four ships, and myself, who had fallen into line with them, pierced the veil of powder and found ourselves coursing through the tunnel back toward Sarm's domain.	10
29	76	There were now four ships ahead of me in the tunnel, fleeing.	10
29	80	Now the three ships were far ahead and I thrust open the speed valve on the armored transportation disk to overtake them.	10
29	81	Just as the three ships burst into the open of another huge complex I caught up with them and opened fire on the third ship but my fire seemed less effective this time and though I gave it a full burst the charging of the tube seemed at last almost exhausted.	10
29	87	I was dimly aware of the other two ships now turning to bring me within range.	10
29	96	The silver tube still lay intact in the firing port but its power was so considerably reduced that it was no longer a menace to the ships of Sarm.	10
30	67	On the other hand the ships of the two forces tended, it seemed, to neutralize one another, and the war in the air, far from being decisive, as Misk and I had hoped, had begun to turn into the same stalemate that had developed on the ground.	10
31	183	I imagined the panic in the cities of Gor, the pitching ships at sea, the stampedes of animals, and only I, of all humans, was at the place where this havoc had begun, only I was there to gaze upon the author of the destruction of a world, the golden destroyer of a planet.	10
32	52	At this moment, skimming over the buildings in the complex, no more than a few feet from their roofs, came one of the ships of Misk, piloted by Al-Ka, accompanied by his woman.	10
32	58	Others, however, eagerly boarded the ships to be flown through the opening to the mountains above.	10
32	59	"We have made many trips," said Al-Ka, "and so have others in the other ships, for the Nest is broken in a dozen places and open to the sky".	10
32	62	Al-Ka and Ba-Ta, as I would have expected, turned their ships over to others to pilot, for they would choose to remain in the Nest.	10
35	35	Indeed, the ships were regarded as vehicles of a type forbidden to men by Priest-Kings and their passengers were attacked in the name of the very Priest-Kings from which they had come.	10

Book 4. (1 results) Nomads of Gor

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2	10	But why was it I who came? Why not Priest-Kings in their ships and power, with their fierce weapons and fantastic devices? Priest-Kings cannot stand the sun.	10

Book 5. (18 results) Assassin of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
7	73	The ship was disklike, as are the ships of Priest-Kings, but it had observation apertures, which the ships of Priest-Kings lack.	10
7	119	I suspected rather that in some of these boxes at least might be goods from the ships of Others, transported by way of Earth, in ships to be piloted by men.	10
5	309	They live in a set of Master Ships, each almost an artificial planet in itself.	10
5	310	As long as these ships remain outside the fifth ring, that of the planet Earthmen call Jupiter, the Goreans Hersius, after a legendary hero of Ar, we do not fight".	10
5	320	Their ships have sensing devices perhaps the match of our own; they scatter; they have weapons, primitive perhaps, but yet effective at ranges of a hundred thousand pasangs".	10
5	333	"Further," said Misk, "the Others are themselves a not uninteresting species, and we have permitted certain of them, prisoners taken from disabled probe ships, to live on this world, much as we have humans".	10
5	339	"But the Others of the ships," I said, "they remain dangerous".	10
5	355	"Even in the ships," he said, "killing is not discouraged except under conditions of battle or when the functioning of the vessel might be impaired".	10
5	394	"Movements of probe ships appear to have been coordinated from the surface.	10
5	395	It is possible the Others of the ships have made contact with those permitted to live on the planet, under our laws.	10
5	408	"On the ships," said Misk, "humans, and certain other organic creatures, are raised for meat".	10
11	280	We have ships which can traverse space to Earth.	10
15	365	But perhaps more importantly he had been spreading rumors throughout the city of the desirability of trained barbarians, of which he now had several in training, those who had been brought to Gor with Virginia and Phyllis, some who had been brought to the pens earlier and not sold off immediately, a...	10
17	333	The man who had been dancing the ship dance had now left the pit of sand and, over against one wall, in the shadows of the torchlight, largely unnoted, danced alone, danced for himself the memories of gleaming Thassa and the swift black ships, the Tarns of the Sea, as the galleys of Port Kar are kno...	10
19	173	It was perhaps the plainest of all the barbarians who had been brought on the black ships; though I knew the girl to be among the most intelligent, and also, I had heard, among the most responsive.	10
19	187	Then I understood what was going on, perhaps belatedly, for I knew the girl, Red Silk before the black ships, was extremely responsive, and had even been used in the hall of Cernus for the amusement of his Warriors and guards; she had known the caress would be given; she had been ready; she had perh...	10
23	208	I saw the small boxes which had been brought from the black ships.	10
24	137	"He is now, chained, on his way to the Sardar, along with the materials taken from the room of the beast and what had been brought in from the black ships.	10

Book 6. (357 results) Raiders of Gor

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10	18	These five ships, pertinent to council membership, may be either the round ships, with deep holds for merchandise, or the long ships, ram-ships, ships of war.	10
17	5	The nearest estimations I could make were that we were bringing, at the time of the engagement, in the neighborhood of twenty-five hundred ships, fourteen hundred of them only round ships, against the joint fleet of Cos and Tyros, of some forty-two hundred ships, all tarn ships, now approaching from...	10
17	365	In the turmoil below, primarily of tarn ships locked in battle, and the great round ships trying to close with enemy tarn ships, I saw, protected by ten tarn ships on each side, and ten before and ten behind, the flagship of Cos and Tyros.	10
10	137	They further control another thousand ships, as executor, through the council, which ships comprise the members of the grain fleet, the oil fleet, the slave fleet, and others, as well as numerous patrol and escort ships.	10
13	297	Ships of Gor, of whatever class or type, always have eyes painted on them, either in a head surmounting the prow, as in tarn ships, or, as in the Rena, as in round ships, on either side of the bow.	10
13	516	My round ships, as much as possible, I engaged in commerce, usually acting on the advice of Luma, the slave girl, my chief accountant; the ram-ships I sent against Cos and Tyros, usually in twos and threes; I myself commonly commanded a fleet of five ram-ships, and spent much time searching the seas...	10
14	66	The treasure fleet, with her escort, consisted of seventy ships; forty were ram-ships and thirty round ships.	10
14	284	Using, on the whole, elementary triangle tactics, wherein an attack by two ships, from different quadrants, is made on a single ship, which can face but one of the attackers, my ships had, in a short time, less than an Ahn, destroyed seven of the ten ram-ships left behind at the treasure fleet.	10
14	297	This left, after the last of my original eleven ships had returned, twenty of my ships with the treasure fleet, more than enough to counter any returning enemy tarn ships.	10
15	15	The ships, in a splendid, long line, filing behind me, the Dorna first, then the tarn ships, then the round ships, under oars, moved slowly through the city, following the triumphal circuit of the great canal, passing even before the chamber of the Council of Captains.	10
15	35	Had there ever been triumph such as this in Port Kar? I brought with me fifty-nine ships: the flagship of the treasure fleet, Vivina bound at its prow, the Dorna, the other twenty-nine ships which had composed my original fleet, and, as prizes, laden with wealth which might have been the ransom of c...	10
15	36	And bound at the prow of the first forty ships, following the flagship, beginning with the Dorna, and then the tarn ships and the first ten and largest of the captured round ships, was a high-born beauty, once intended to be the maiden of Cos' Ubara, now, like herself, destined only for the brand an...	10
17	9	Of the seven hundred arsenal ships, three hundred and forty were tarn ships, and three hundred and sixty were round ships.	10
17	40	With their lines cut in fifty places, for no extended handful of tarn ships, part of a great line, could resist a close-set formation of sixteen tarn ships, I hoped that many of the ships would turn to face the attackers, now in their rear.	10
17	41	Each of my fifty sets of attacking tarn ships would be followed, by some half of an Ahn, by another pair of my tarn ships, which, hopefully, would be able to take a number of these come-about ships of Cos and Tyros from the rear.	10
17	78	Accordingly I hoped the tarn ships of Cos and Tyros, seeing the sails, would think their new enemies were single-masted round ships, of which there are some types, and either misjudge their speeds or rush on them unwarily, finding out, too late, that they were plunging headlong toward swift, maneuve...	10
17	79	These ships would then, when free to do so, support the round ships in their battle, destroying tarn ships which might, unaware of the new danger, be attempting to close with them.	10
17	197	And then I had seen fleet ships, in their fifties, come about to move against what they had taken to be a new wave of round ships, only to be taken off-guard by the rams and shearing blades of ships as swift and terrible as their own.	10
17	214	I could see, now, approaching the Dorna, from the east, the reserves, the fifty-five tarn ships, and the ten wide-beamed round ships, lumber ships from the arsenal, whose cargoes were unknown even to my highest officers.	10
17	222	I saw now that the tarn ships of Cos and Tyros were, where possible, not engaging the round ships, but concentrating their superior numbers on my tarn ships.	10
17	227	He would use his superior numbers on my tarn ships, leaving the round ships for later, when they might be struck by as many as four or five tarn ships simultaneously.	10
18	134	Far below I saw the Dorna, lifting and falling in the troughs of the waves, and, separated from her, the ships of the fleet, round ships and tarn ships, storm sails set, oars dipping, flying before the storm.	10
10	138	Beyond these ships there are some twenty-five hundred ships which are owned by some fifteen or sixteen hundred minor captains of the city, not wealthy enough to sit on the Council of Captains.	10
10	142	It is, of course, true that not all of these some five thousand ships are war ships.	10
10	143	My estimation would be that approximately fifteen hundred only are the long ships, the ram-ships, those of war.	10
10	144	On the other hand, whereas the round ships do not carry rams and are much slower and less maneuverable than the long ships, they are not inconsequential in a naval battle, for their deck areas and deck castles can accommodate springals, small catapults, and chain-sling onagers, not to mention numero...	10
10	281	It was thus that the round ships of Bosk, the captain from the marshes, with their free crews, became in their own right dangerous, formidable ships.	10
13	5	Some four months ago I, in my swiftest ram-ship, accompanied by my two other ram-ships, and escorted, as well, by five ram-ships of the arsenal, heavy class, had come to the vast, wall-encircled harbors of Telnus, which is the capital city of the Ubarate of Cos.	10
14	77	The principal alternatives, under these conditions, open to the men of Cos and Tyros would then seem to be, first, to use free oarsmen, which was not, however, traditional on round ships, or, second, to increase the ram-ship escort for round ships.	10
14	87	The important thing, as I saw it, was not so much the absolute numbers of ships involved as the numbers of ships that could be applied at a given place and given time.	10
14	114	Whereas I did not know exactly the codes employed by the treasure fleet, I had little doubt that our hesitation was being signaled about the fleet, and then I heard other trumpets, and saw the round ships drawing apart, and tarn ships streaking between them, fanning out in our direction.	10
14	151	By this time, of course, the balance of my fleet, eighteen ram-ships, would have struck the treasure fleet, now protected only by some ten ram-ships, from the northwest.	10
14	249	Accordingly, in such a combat situation, involving only two ships at sea, both ships commonly described the broad starboard circle, prowling about one another like wary sleen, exchanging missiles, watchful for the opportunity to engage with ram and blades.	10
14	277	Of the forty tarn ships in her escort, thirty, lured away, had pursued my ships far from the critical points.	10
14	280	Some of the enemy ships, however, in turning back from the chase, had been able to regroup and somewhere, abroad on Thassa, there was doubtless a fleet of some ten enemy tarn ships, still a possible threat.	10
14	283	At the treasure fleet itself, while most of her escort pursued my diversionary ships, the other eighteen vessels in my fleet had fallen, suddenly, silently, on the ten tarn ships left behind with the treasure fleet.	10
14	291	Accordingly, as soon as a sufficient number of my ships had returned to the treasure fleet, I set about organizing a pursuit of the missing round ships.	10
14	293	I dispatched ten tarn ships abroad in search patterns, hoping to snare some of the seven missing round ships.	10
14	294	Five of these search ships I sent in a net formation toward Cos, supposing this the most likely, if not the most wise, course that would soon be taken by the majority of the escaping round ships.	10
14	301	Round ships, like ram-ships, differ among themselves considerably.	10
14	407	"Take then those that were with her," I said, "and distribute them to the extent of their number among our other ships, the twenty most beautiful to our twenty tarn ships now with the fleet, and the most beautiful of that twenty to the prow of the Dorna, and the other twenty set at the prows of twen...	10
14	472	The seventeen ships are not to enter battle unless accompanied by the Dorna, and under no conditions, if battle ensues, are any of my ships to move more than four pasangs from the fleet".	10
15	50	In the five days it had taken to reach Port Kar from the scene of the engagement with the treasure fleet, due to the slowness of the round ships, I had not kept Vivina, and her maidens, of course, at the prows of the ships.	10
15	57	High-born ladies commonly sail in cabins, located in the stern castles of either ram-ships or round ships.	10
15	115	My guards had even turned away the mad, half-blind shipwright, Tersites, with his fantastic recommendations for the improvement of tarn ships, as though ships so beautiful, so swift, and vicious, might be improved.	10
16	369	The round ships and the long ships leave the harbor of Port Kar.	10
17	10	Our fleet was further supplemented by some fourteen hundred ships furnished by private captains, minor captains of Port Kar, most of which were round ships.	10
17	12	Of these three hundred and fifty ships, approximately two hundred, happily, were tarn ships.	10
17	47	The predesignation of fighting pairs, incidentally, and my injunctions to refuse to engage singly if possible, even withdrawing from equal odds, I am told, was new in Gorean naval warfare, though the pairing principle, on a more informal basis, is as old as the triangle tactic, which may be remember...	10
17	48	I had also arranged signals whereby my ships, those of my task forces and others, might, if the pairs became separated, switch partners, thus retaining the possibility of pair-attacks on single ships even if the members of the original pairs should become separated.	10
17	49	The first two waves of my attack consisted, thus, of fifty task forces of sixteen tarn ships apiece and, following each of the task forces, at an interval of half an Ahn, another pair of tarn ships.	10
17	51	This left me approximately one hundred and eighty-five tarn ships, and the large numbers, fourteen hundred, of round ships.	10
17	59	Further, when the ships of Cos and Tyros turned upon these round ships I did not think they would find them common foes.	10
17	63	There were crews on these ships armed with grappling irons and each of the ships carried two or more "grappling bridges".	10
17	74	It was my hope that my round ships, with their large, free crews, and their artillery, and their boarding potentialities, might be a match for even heavy-class tarn ships.	10
17	76	My fourth wave consisted of fifty tarn ships, instructed not to lower their masts, which would follow the round ships by an Ahn.	10
17	77	Coming on the heels of the round ships, with their masts high, these, I assumed, might well be taken for more round ships, for the mast of a tarn ship is always lowered before battle.	10
17	84	I hoped that Chenbar might assume that many of the ships which had fled from Port Kar might have come about and decided to join the battle, or he might infer that he had, before he could ascertain the ships involved in the flanking attacks, seriously misjudged our numbers.	10
17	173	Behind my second-wave ships, I saw, scattered in its long enveloping line stretching from horizon to horizon across Thassa, their small storm sails pounded by the wind, the third wave, that of the round ships.	10
17	177	Following the fourth wave, its own attack timed to occur half an Ahn after that of the fourth wave, would come the fifth wave, the two small fleets of tarn ships, of forty ships apiece, masts down, who would initiate their pincers attack from the north and the south.	10
17	179	With the reserves would come ten more round ships, wide-beamed lumber ships from the arsenal.	10
17	194	I had watched my first wave break in dozens of places the long lines of Cos and Tyros, and had seen the ships of the great fleet turn to face them, and had witnessed their vulnerability to the slender second wave of ships, each wreaking destruction beyond what might be expected of their sizes and we...	10
17	196	Hundreds of ships had turned to destroy these clumsy intruders, but, of these hundreds, great numbers discovered, too late, that they fought not common round ships but floating fortresses jammed with armed men, eager to engage.	10
17	202	I had only some twenty-five hundred ships, most of them round ships, to bring against a fleet of prime vessels, some forty-two hundred in strength, each a tarn ship, with fierce ram and shearing blades.	10
17	211	My fifth wave was divided into two portions, the pincer blade striking from the north under the command of the tall, long-haired Nigel with his fifteen ships, supplemented by twenty-five of the arsenal, and the pincer blade from the south under the command of Chung, with his twenty ships, supplement...	10
17	212	All of these ships were tarn ships.	10
17	219	And between them, heavy, their hulls buffeted by the wind, even their small storm sails now furled to their yards, came the ten round ships, the lumber ships from the arsenal.	10
17	228	The round ships, of course, were too slow to offer the swift, decisive support to my tarn ships which they would surely need shortly.	10
17	245	To cries of wonder from my men, and those of other ships nearby, the deck planking of the ten round ships was lifted and thrown aside.	10
18	62	I also knew that the blockade about the last major holding of Sevarius had been lifted, that its ships, arsenal ships, might participate in the day's battle.	10
1	63	The fleets of tarn ships of Port Kar are the scourge of Thassa, beautiful, lateen-rigged galleys that ply the trade of plunder and enslavement from the Ta-Thassa Mountains of the southern hemisphere of Gor to the ice lakes of the North; and westward even beyond the terraced island of Cos and the roc...	10
7	15	There were six ships.	10
7	19	At the prows of the second and third ships I saw two others of my tormentors, the blond, gray-eyed girl, who had carried marsh vine, and the shorter, dark-haired girl, who had carried a net over her left shoulder.	10
7	54	These anchor-hooks, incidentally, are a great deal lighter than the anchors used in the long galleys, and the round ships.	10
8	394	I can guide ships by the stars.	10
9	13	She danced under ships' lanterns, hanging from the ceiling of the paga tavern, it located near the wharves bounding the great arsenal.	10
9	101	Nominally beneath these Ubars, but in fact much independent of them, is an oligarchy of merchant princes, Captains, as they call themselves, who, in council, maintain and manage the great arsenal, building and renting ships and fittings, themselves controlling the grain fleet, the oil fleet, the sla...	10
9	155	Raids of one upon the other, involving a few dozen ships, were not infrequent, whether on the shipping of Port Kar, or beaching on Cos or Tyros, but major actions, those which might involve the hundreds of galleys possessed by these redoubtable maritime powers, the two island Ubarates and Port Kar, ...	10
10	16	Admittance to the council is based on being master of at least five ships.	10
10	21	The five ships, it might be added, must be of at least medium class.	10
10	38	Not only the ships of Surbus had become mine, his men having declared for me, but his holding as well, and his assets, his treasures and equipments, and his slaves.	10
10	40	It lay on the eastern edge of Port Kar, backing on the marshes; it opened, by means of a huge barred gate, to the canals of the city; in its courtyard were wharved his seven ships; when journeying to Thassa the great gate was opened and they were rowed through the city to the sea.	10
10	135	The following figures pertain to medium class or larger vessels: The five Ubars of Port Kar, Chung, Eteocles, Nigel, Sullius Maximus and Henrius Sevarius, control among themselves some four hundred ships.	10
10	136	The approximately one hundred and twenty captains of the Council of the Captains of Port Kar have, pledged to their personal service, some thousand ships.	10
10	139	The figures I have listed would give us some forty-nine hundred ships.	10
10	140	To get a better figure, particularly since the above figures are themselves approximations, let us say that Port Kar houses in the neighborhood of five thousand ships.	10
10	158	The men of Port Kar may permit slaves to build their houses and their walls, but they do not permit them to build their ships.	10
10	170	The Council of Captains respects those who build and outfit ships.	10
10	174	Building fine and beautiful ships gives them great pleasure.	10
10	178	This is not to say that they would have any objection to being rich; it is only to remark, in effect, that it has never occurred to them, no more than to most Goreans, to take very seriously the pursuit of wealth as their universal and compelling motivation; being ignorant, it seems, they, like most...	10
10	199	Tersites had also, it might be mentioned, though he had not presented these ideas in his appearance before the council, argued for a rudder hung on the sternpost of the tarn ship, rather than the two side-hung rudders, and had championed a square rigging, as opposed to the beautiful lateen rigging c...	10
10	225	Twice we had been scouted by pirates from Tyros, in their green ships, painted to resemble the sea, but neither of them had chosen to engage us.	10
10	230	Better, they would think, to lie in wait on the open sea for the slave galleys of Tyros or the treasure ships of Cos.	10
10	234	Surprisingly, few left my ships.	10
10	236	"When do we sail against the ships of Cos and Tyros?" asked Tab of me.	10
10	240	Ashore my crews were roisterous and brawling but on the ships, strange as it is to relate, they were serious and disciplined men.	10
10	266	While I made my five voyages my other six ships were engaged in commercial ventures similar to those which had occupied my first four voyages.	10
10	273	I used free men on the rowing benches of my round ships, of which I had four, not slaves, as is traditional.	10
10	282	Merchants of Port Kar began to apply to me that they might transport their goods in my ships.	10
10	284	Certain other captains, I noted, were now also experimenting, on certain of their ships, with free crews.	10
10	307	I now had the means whereby I might purchase yet two more ships for my fleet.	10
10	308	They would be deep-keeled round ships, with mighty holds, and high, broad sails.	10
11	60	"There are no ships from Cos or Tyros in the harbor," said one of the captains standing near me.	10
11	65	We could see burning ships.	10
11	82	Slowly, moving smoothly, their oars dipping in rhythm, from various sides, we saw tarn ships moving toward the hall of the council.	10
11	109	The large basins, just mentioned, are of two types: the first, unroofed, is used for the underwater storage and seasoning of Tur wood; the second, roofed, serves for the heavier fittings and upper carpentry of ships, and for repairs that do not necessitate recourse to the roofed dry docks.	10
11	116	I, and the three other captains, stood on the sloping roof of the hall of the council and watched the ships burning at the wharves.	10
11	147	The ships of the captains were usually moored, beyond this, within the city, in the mooring lakes fronting on their holdings and walled.	10
11	151	At any given time most of the ships of Port Kar are at sea.	10
11	154	The ships of the captains, returning, would further guarantee their power in the city, their crews being applicable where the captains might choose.	10
11	155	To be sure, many of the ships of the Ubars were similarly at sea, but men pretending to the Ubarate of Port Kar commonly keep a far larger percentage of their power in port than would a common captain.	10
11	157	If so, they might control, among themselves, a force of about one hundred and fifty ships, most of which were still at sea.	10
11	159	Further, if necessary, the Council of Captains, with its power, might intercept and impound their ships, as they returned, one by one.	10
11	192	As nearly as I could gather, Chung had been the most afflicted by the fire, losing perhaps thirty ships.	10
11	204	His ships and wharves are well defended.	10
11	298	"Our round ships," said Samos, "require oarsmen".	10
11	326	"How many ships has he?" asked Samos.	10
11	328	"The captains of the council," said Samos, dryly, "have some one thousand ships pledged to their personal service.	10
11	329	And further, the council is executor with respect to the disposition and application of the ships of the city, in the number of approximately another thousand".	10
11	331	"The council commands," summarized Samos, "some two thousand ships".	10
11	332	"There are many other ships!" cried Lysias.	10
11	335	"I refer to the ships of the minor captains, in the number of better than twenty-five hundred!" "In the streets," said Samos, "I have heard the cry 'Power to the council!'" "Proclaim Henrius Sevarius sole Ubar," said Lysias numbly, "and your lives will be spared, and you will be granted amnesty".	10
11	338	"Now hear," said Samos, "the proposal of the council, that Henrius Sevarius and his regent, Claudius, lay down their arms, and divest themselves of all ships, and men and holdings, and all properties and assets, and present themselves, stripped and in the chains of slaves, before the council, that i...	10
11	340	"Perhaps," said Samos, "their lives may be spared, that they may take their seat on the benches of the public round ships".	10
11	407	Even before dawn walls were being raised about the holdings of Henrius Sevarius, and his wharves were being blockaded with ships of the arsenal, while large watches were being maintained on the holdings of the other four Ubars.	10
11	409	One of these studies was to be a census of ships and captains, the results of which were to be private to the council.	10
11	414	It is true, of course, that the council already controlled a large number of ships and crews, but it must be remembered that these forces were naval in nature; the council already had its navy; the events of the afternoon had demonstrated that it would be well if it had also at its disposal a small,...	10
11	459	Surely these might then be dissuaded from becoming allies of Cos and Tyros, and perhaps might be inclined to offer their services to Port Kar? At the very least, the ships of Port Kar might, in such a situation, become suddenly welcome in ports that had hitherto been closed to them.	10
11	460	And who knew what trading ships might make their way to Port Kar, if they thought her a fair and honest city? The estimate of Samos, that such a gesture on Port Kar's part might eventually result in a trebling of her trade, seemed to me possibly conservative.	10
11	502	Such a peace would, I note, open the ports of Tyros and Cos, and their allies and others, to my ships, and, of course, to yours.	10
11	553	"To send a captain is equivalent to sentencing him to the bench of a slave on the round ships of Cos or Tyros".	10
11	597	"And," I said, "as escort, I will require five ram-ships from the arsenal, of medium or heavy class, to be captained and crewed by men selected by myself".	10
11	598	"Which ships," asked Samos, "are returned to the arsenal upon the completion of your mission?" "Of course," I said.	10
12	2	I was waiting for my ships, and those of the arsenal, to be made ready for my trip, my mission of peace, to Cos and Tyros.	10
12	6	His wharves, moreover, were, with arsenal ships, almost immediately blockaded by sea.	10
12	107	If he fell into the hands of the council he would doubtless be tortured and impaled, or, perhaps, condemned to a seat on the rowing benches of the arsenal round ships.	10
13	1	How Bosk Came to Be Pirate "Paint my ships green," I had said.	10
13	28	When I had finished, Chenbar, with a look to Lurius, rose to his feet and said, "Seize his ships".	10
13	29	"I think you will find," I said, "that my ships have already withdrawn from the harbor of Telnus".	10
13	188	"I trust, too," said Chenbar, "that you will not be the last of the captains of Port Kar to pull an oar on the round ships of Cos or Tyros".	10
13	196	"I do not frequent the rowing holds of round ships," she said.	10
13	205	Then, with treasure ships, we shall return in festive voyage to the harbor of Telnus, where I shall take the arm of Lurius and with him drink the cup of the Free Companionship".	10
13	208	"You spoke of treasure ships," I said.	10
13	229	By the eighth hour various captains of round ships had arrived and begun to haggle with the slave master over the prices of the oarsmen.	10
13	230	The slave master, in my opinion, wanted far too much for his merchandise, considering we were merely fodder for the benches of the round ships.	10
13	242	"I use only strong men on my ships".	10
13	314	The Rena of Temos, like most round ships, had two permanent masts, unlike the removable masts of the war galleys.	10
13	331	At that moment, from far above, from the basket on the main mast, came the cry of the lookout, "Two ships off the port beam!" "Out and ready oars!" cried the oar-master, running to his chair.	10
13	337	But then another cry, wild, drifted down from the basket on the main mast, "Two more ships! Off the starboard bow!" "Helm ahead!" cried Tenrik.	10
13	344	"Two more ships astern!" The heavy, leather-cushioned mallets of the keleustes struck again and again on the copper-covered drum.	10
13	359	"Two more ships!" cried the lookout.	10
13	446	The Rena was now hemmed in by the eight ships, and two, heavy-class galleys, from the arsenal, were drawing alongside.	10
13	454	There were cheers from the clustered ships of Port Kar.	10
13	472	"Bring those who were slaves," I said, "whether injured or not, aboard our ships.	10
13	484	"When," asked Tab, "do we sail against the ships of Cos and Tyros?" I laughed.	10
13	486	"Yes," said I, "they have, and now we may sail against them!" There were cheers from the men about, who felt that too long had the ships of Bosk surrendered the seas to those of Cos and Tyros.	10
13	498	"Then," said I, "paint my ships green".	10
13	508	I was followed by my men, who loosened the grappling hooks and ropes that bound our ships to the Rena.	10
13	510	"To Port Kar!" And thus it was that the ships of Bosk, he of Port Kar, came to be painted green.	10
13	511	* * * * Within the month, supplied and outfitted, the ram-ships of Bosk, a light galley, two of medium class, and one of heavy class, made their first strikes on Thassa.	10
13	513	My treasures were soon increased considerably, and the number of ships in my fleet, by captured prizes, was radically augmented, so much so that I could not begin to wharf them within the lakelike courtyard of my holding.	10
13	515	Even so I found myself pressed and, to ease the difficulties of wharfage and mooring rights, I sold many a round ship taken, and some of the inferior long ships.	10
13	520	It was, accordingly, no accident that I, Bosk, from the marshes, in the Fifth Passage Hand of the year 10,120 from the founding of the city of Ar, four months after the unsuccessful coup of Henrius Sevarius in the city of Port Kar, stood admiral on the stern castle of my flagship, the Dorna of Tharn...	10
14	4	I mention, however, in passing, that a great variety of ram-ships ply Thassa, many of which, in their dimensions, their lines, their rigging and their rowing arrangements, differ from her considerably.	10
14	6	The Dorna, like most other tarn ships, is single-banked; and yet her oar power is not inferior to even the trebly-banked vessels; how this is I shall soon note.	10
14	7	The Dorna, like most tarn ships, is a long, narrow vessel of shallow draft.	10
14	24	Tarn ships are painted in a variety of colors; the Dorna, of course, was green.	10
14	31	They are now, however, found on most recent ram-ships, of whatever port of origin.	10
14	39	The Dorna used oars of varying lengths; her oars, like those of many tarn ships, varied by about one and one-half foot Gorean, oar to oar; the most inboard oar being the longest; the outboard oar being the shortest.	10
14	46	It is almost universal on ram-ships.	10
14	47	The rowing deck, further, is open to the air, thereby differing from the rowing holds of round ships.	10
14	59	To be sure, there are many factors involved here, and one might suppose triple banks following the model of the single-banked, three-men-three-oars-to-a-bench type, and so on, but, putting aside questions of the size of vessel required for such arrangements, we may simply note, without commenting fu...	10
14	60	The other type of ship, though found occasionally, does not seem, at least currently, to present a distinct challenge to the low, swift, single-banked ships.	10
14	65	I had, at my disposal, thirty ram-ships, eighteen of my own, and twelve on consignment from the arsenal.	10
14	67	Of the forty ram ships, twenty-five were heavy class, and fifteen medium class.	10
14	68	Of my thirty ram-ships, twenty were heavy class, and ten medium class.	10
14	70	I had made it a practice never to ram round ships, and I had seen that this practice was well publicized.	10
14	73	I think, had it not been for this, my own actions against round ships of the past months would not have been as successful as they had been.	10
14	75	Accordingly I thus, in effect, recruited tacit allies in the rowing holds of round ships.	10
14	76	The slaves, eager for the capture of the vessel by one of my ships, could scarcely be expected to row with their full strength, and the masters, knowing full well the ship might be taken, feared, under the conditions obtaining, to seriously abuse or slay the chained oarsmen.	10
14	80	The prices of goods, I might note, carried on ships of Cos and Tyros and her allies, because of the need of paying for additional escort, had risen considerably.	10
14	83	Because of my practices in connection with round ships, I did not expect Cos and Tyros to enter them seriously into any naval engagement with my fleet.	10
14	84	Thus, the odds, which might have been prohibitive under normal conditions, of seventy ships to thirty, I suspected I had reduced to something like forty, or perhaps fifty, to thirty.	10
14	89	With twelve ships I began to approach the treasure fleet from the southeast.	10
14	90	Although I had had the masts, with their yards, taken down and lashed to the decks, and the sails stored below, I had the flutists and drummers, not uncommon on the ram-ships of Thassa, strike up a martial air.	10
14	92	Since the ram-ships of the enemy had not yet struck their masts, it would be only a matter of moments before we were sighted.	10
14	93	From the stern castle of the Dorna, then, with a long glass, that of the builders, I observed, far across the waters, the masts of the ram-ships, one by one, lowering.	10
14	99	In a few moments hides, soaked overside, would be spread over good portions of the decks and bulwarks; and bags of sea water, for putting out fires, would be drawn and placed about the ships.	10
14	101	Similar preparations, of course, were taking place on my own ships.	10
14	107	Then, when I saw the perimeter ships of the treasure fleet swinging about toward me, I motioned for the musicians to discontinue their performance.	10
14	108	When they were silent, I could hear the flutes and drums from the enemy ships.	10
14	113	Over the faint music coming from the distant ships, now approaching, I could hear her war trumpets and, with the glass, observe her flags.	10
14	120	I did not even, following my plan, signal this move to my other ships.	10
14	122	I wanted it to appear that the other ships must take their cue to action from our own, as though, in fear and confusion, we had not even signaled them.	10
14	125	Others, brief notes, interrogations, demands for clarification, were from my own ships.	10
14	127	I listened to the flutes and drums of the ram-ships of the treasure fleet.	10
14	130	I counted, clearly, some twenty ships, fanned out in a long enveloping line, moving towards us.	10
14	131	The Dorna had now come about and, at half beat, was moving southeast, directly away from the pursuing ships.	10
14	132	The other eleven ships with me were, not too gracefully, by intention, coming about to join me in my flight.	10
14	134	These twelve ships, including the Dorna, incidentally, were my swiftest.	10
14	135	It seemed probable, with a decent start, which we had, we could stay ahead of the pursuing ram-ships, if we chose, either indefinitely, or, if they were faster, which I doubted, at least for several Ahn.	10
14	141	In another quarter of an Ahn I could count thirty ram-ships engaged in our pursuit.	10
14	150	After two Ahn, sometimes increasing the beat, sometimes decreasing it, depending on whether or not we wished to avoid being actually overtaken or we wished to encourage our pursuers, we had spread them behind us in a long, straggling line, its spacing an index to the speed of their individual ships.	10
14	159	It was the twelfth Ahn before the commander of the first pursuing ship understood either that he had been tricked or that he was not likely to overtake our ships.	10
14	168	The ships behind her began turning about.	10
14	169	Some of the ships to the sides, perhaps having seen the flags with glasses from their stem or stern castles, also ceased the pursuit.	10
14	186	There were still four ships ahead of us.	10
14	189	We saw the ship ahead of us trying to come about, but, before she could make four points of the Gorean compass, our ram struck the corner of her stern, skidding through and freeing itself, the ships, the Dorna's port oars inboard, grating together, and then the Dorna was clear, free, and we were dri...	10
14	191	It, too, began to come about, and we caught her amidships, the ram thrusting through the heavy planking like kindling, then stopped by the shield, like a spread tarn's crest, and we chopped our way back and free, and then knifed past her stern toward the next two ships.	10
14	192	By this time the two ships ahead of us were well aware of their danger and, given the distances involved, neither captain elected to chance the dangerous maneuver of coming about to meet us.	10
14	197	I could see few ships, but most of those I saw were green, my own.	10
14	198	I could see the wreckage of two of the enemy tarn ships.	10
14	199	I was quite content, of course, if each of my ships not in view were continuing to lead their pursuers a merry chase.	10
14	201	I was willing to spend one ship to draw two or three enemy ships from the battle, if battle there was to be.	10
14	202	And, of course, as soon as the enemy ships would turn back, they would be vulnerable to my own, presumably faster vessels.	10
14	203	Of the twelve ships in my diversion, five were my fastest and seven were among the fastest in the arsenal.	10
14	246	The two tarn ships, the Dorna and the other, faced one another, motionless, save for their response to the swells of Thassa.	10
14	278	I myself had damaged or destroyed four of these ships, and had removed a fifth from the theater of action.	10
14	279	As my other eleven ships, one by one, began to return to the treasure fleet, the story was similar with them.	10
14	285	Two had been permitted to escape, and one lay, even now, penned in among the round ships.	10
14	286	Some of the round ships, intelligently, had scattered, but, of the thirty originally in the fleet, there were now twenty-two ringed with our vessels.	10
14	287	And another was soon herded in by one of my ram-ships, which, in returning to the fleet, had picked it up.	10
14	288	I was in no particular hurry to move against the captured round ships.	10
14	290	I was more interested in the seven round ships that had fled.	10
14	292	I communicated with my other ships by flag and trumpet, some of them conveying my messages to others more distant.	10
14	295	My other five search ships I sent in sweeps away from Cos.	10
14	296	If the endeavors of these various ships, after two days, were unsuccessful, they were to return to Port Kar.	10
14	300	I looked upon my twenty-three round ships, and was not unsatisfied.	10
14	302	But most are, as I may have mentioned, two masted, have permanent masts and, like the ram-ships, are lateen rigged.	10
14	309	There are in the building of ships, as in other things, values to be weighed.	10
14	314	Penned in among the twenty-three round ships was a long galley, a purple ship, flying the purple flag of Cos.	10
14	321	I anticipated, and received, little resistance from the round ships.	10
14	324	They were slower than the ram-ships and, under any conditions, little match for them.	10
14	326	Vessel by vessel my men boarded the round ships, commonly meeting no resistance.	10
14	327	The free crews of these ships, of course, were hopelessly outnumbered by my men.	10
14	359	Eighteen of the ships in my fleet had been arsenal vessels.	10
14	456	The treasure from the ship, of course, will be placed aboard other ships, taken to Port Kar as prizes.	10
14	461	"In order that your information may be as accurate as possible, at least to this point, I inform you that seven of your treasure ships have, at least until now, eluded me.	10
14	463	And, of tarn ships, I have one captured, your flagship, and, from the reports of my captains, some eighteen or twenty have been seriously damaged or sunk.	10
14	464	That would leave you with some ten, or perhaps twelve, ships yet abroad on Thassa".	10
14	465	At that point, from the foremast of a nearby round ship, where I had placed a lookout, came the cry, "Twelve sail! Twelve sail abeam!" "Ah," said I, "twelve ships, it seems".	10
14	469	"Thurnock," said I, "signal seventeen of my twenty ships to present themselves to our approaching friends.	10
14	475	Battle preparations were underway on my ships.	10
14	481	The enemy fleet, the twelve ships, was now, by estimate from the lookout, with his glass, some four pasangs distant.	10
14	483	I had the admiral freed of his leg irons and he and I, from the stem castle of his own ship, regarded the approaching ships.	10
14	485	The Lady Vivina, prepared for the prow, stood nearby, a sailor's hand on her arm, she, too, watching the approaching ships.	10
14	486	Then the admiral cried out with rage and the Lady Vivina, her hand at her breast, eyes horrified, cried out, "No, No!" The twelve ships had put about, taking their course now for Cos.	10
15	10	My ten search vessels had managed to bring in five of the seven missing round ships, four of which had been, foolishly, striking out directly for Telnus in Cos.	10
15	16	Flowers had been scattered in the canal, and others were thrown on our ships as we passed.	10
15	54	"If I remember correctly," I had said, behind the admiral's table, busied with papers, "in the hall of the Ubar of Cos you told me that you did not frequent the rowing holds of round ships".	10
15	62	"Take this lady," said I to them, "in a long boat to the largest of the round ships, one rowed by captured officers of the treasure fleet, and chain her there, with other treasures, in the rowing hold".	10
15	71	"Only slave girls, I understand," said she, "are kept chained below decks in round ships".	10
15	112	As the holds of the round ships, one by one, had been emptied, appraised and recorded, hundreds of men, most of them unknown to me, had applied to me for clientship.	10
15	124	Lastly, the forces of Henrius Sevarius, under the regency of Claudius, once of Tyros, had been driven by the Council forces from all their holdings, save one, a huge fortress, its walls extending into the Tamber itself, sheltering the some two dozen ships left him.	10
15	126	Accordingly the Council, ringing it with double walls on the land side and blockading it with arsenal ships by sea, chose to wait.	10
15	200	He had often, I had heard, sneaked away from the kitchen to observe the ships in the courtyard and the practices of men with weapons.	10
16	139	"Patrol ships have returned," he cried.	10
16	140	"The joint fleets of Cos and Tyros are but hours from us!" "Outfit my ships," I said.	10
16	148	"Take your ships and what men are left to you," said Telima.	10
16	149	"Fill your ships with treasure and fly, my Ubar".	10
16	175	"Thurnock," I said, "I gave orders, did I not, to have my ships outfitted".	10
16	184	"Four thousand ships," he said.	10
16	185	"Tarn ships?" I asked.	10
16	188	The fleet would consist, according to my information, of forty-two hundred ships, twenty-five hundred from Cos and seventeen hundred from Tyros.	10
16	194	And ships may be swiftly outfitted and launched, if materials and crews are at hand.	10
16	197	Besides, it was now in Se'Kara, late in the season to launch tarn ships.	10
16	198	Most sailing, save by round ships, is done in the spring and summer.	10
16	208	"There is only one thing to do," he said, "and that is to ready our ships, take our treasure and slaves aboard, and flee.	10
16	276	"Officers," I cried, "to your ships! Form your lines beyond the harbor four pasangs west of the wharves of Sevarius!" "Yes, Captain!" they cried.	10
16	284	I had no hopes that Port Kar could muster enough ships to fend off the joint fleet of Cos and Tyros.	10
16	321	I had heard already that men with larger ships, hundreds of them, had put out to sea, and that the wharves were packed with throngs, bidding exorbitant amounts of gold for a passage from Port Kar.	10
16	356	"Make your ships ready," he said.	10
16	372	We cannot find ships to fight".	10
17	2	It was a very beautiful sight, the great lines of ships in the distance, extending to the ends of the horizons, the sails like yellow and purple flags, in their thousands, in the sun of the ninth Gorean hour, an Ahn before noon.	10
17	3	Port Kar had mustered what ships she could.	10
17	4	In the hurrying of our formations and the drawing of battle plans, I was not even certain of the numbers of ships engaged in our various ventures.	10
17	6	We had all of the arsenal ships that were available, some seven hundred out of an approximate thousand.	10
17	8	As I may have mentioned, most Gorean sailing, particularly by tarn ships, is done in the spring and summer.	10
17	11	Beyond this, we had three hundred and fifty ships furnished by the captains of the council who had not, prior to the time of the showing of the Home Stone, fled.	10
17	13	My own ships counted in with these of the captains of the council.	10
17	14	Lastly, I was pleased, though astonished, to accept the service of thirty-five ships of two of Port Kar's Ubars, twenty from the squat, brilliant Chung, and fifteen from tall, long-haired Nigel, like a war lord from Torvaldsland.	10
17	15	These were all the ships that were left to these two Ubars after the fires of En'Kara.	10
17	16	None of the ships of the Ubars Eteocles or Sullius Maximus had been pledged to the fleet, nor, of course, none of those of Henrius Sevarius, under the command of his regent, Claudius, once of Tyros.	10
17	17	Had it not been for the finding of the Home Stone of Port Kar, if one may so speak, I doubt that we could have brought more than four or five hundred ships against Cos and Tyros.	10
17	29	Astern there were, each separated by about one hundred yards, four tarn ships of Port Kar, and behind this four, there was another, and behind that another, and behind that another.	10
17	30	The Dorna was thus leading a relatively close formation of sixteen tarn ships.	10
17	31	This was one of fifty such task forces, consisting altogether of eight hundred tarn ships.	10
17	33	Their ships were only four deep and widely spaced.	10
17	34	Our sets of sixteen ships, each in a position not to interfere with but support one another, could cut such a line easily.	10
17	36	As soon as the ships broke through the line they would spread in predesignated pairs, attacking where possible from the rear, but always conjointly.	10
17	38	The balance, the great majority of ships in the joint fleet, thus, would remain, at least for the time, unengaged, apart from the battles.	10
17	39	Once more it would not be so much a question of absolute numbers of ships as concentrating superior numbers at strategic points.	10
17	43	The original pairs, of the fifty sets of sixteen tarn ships, after cutting the line and fighting, would, if possible, regroup with their sixteen and recut the line again, this time moving toward Port Kar, and repeat these tactics.	10
17	45	By that time the ships of Cos and Tyros would have concentrated in their numbers and shortened their lines.	10
17	46	After the first cutting I expected a free combat, except insofar as the designated pairs of ships could continue to work together.	10
17	50	This meant the first wave consisted of eight hundred ships, and the second of one hundred.	10
17	52	I signaled that the sixteen tarn ships with me should proceed.	10
17	56	My third wave, following the second by an Ahn, would consist of a long extended line of round ships, some fourteen hundred.	10
17	57	It was my hope that by the time they arrived at the engagement the fleet of Cos and Tyros, responding to my first two waves, would have shortened their lines and concentrated their ships.	10
17	58	Thus the round ships might, hopefully, be able to envelop their formation, surround it, and attack on the flanks, with their not inconsiderable barrage of flaming javelins, heated stones, burning pitch and showers of crossbow bolts.	10
17	61	Only slaves whose origin was of Cos or Tyros, or their allies, had been taken from the ships and left behind, chained in the warehouses of Port Kar.	10
17	62	Besides having large numbers of unchained, armed men in their rowing holds, these round ships, moreover, were, below decks, and in the turrets and the stem and stern castles, crowded with armed, able-bodied men, citizens of Port Kar who had swarmed aboard, that they might fight.	10
17	65	They are to be fastened at one end to the round ship and are intended to be dropped, with their ponderous spiked ends, into the deck of an enemy ship, thus nailing, or fastening, the ships together.	10
17	68	But now I expected, to the surprise of attacking ram-ships which might attempt to board them, they would find themselves boarded, and their decks overwhelmed with swarms of armed, free men.	10
17	69	We had crowded far more armed men into each of these round ships than would be carried even in the normal crew of a heavy-class tarn ship.	10
17	72	And if the tarn ships of Cos and Tyros should use their rams, we hoped that, in the moments it would take to disengage the ram, the grappling irons and the grappling bridges might be brought into play.	10
17	80	My fifth wave, following the fourth by half an Ahn, consisted of two fleets of forty tarn ships apiece, one attacking from the north and the other from the south.	10
17	81	I did not think I had the ships to make this pincer attack truly devastating, but, in the turmoil of a battle at sea, without the clearest understanding of the position and numbers of the enemy, such flanking attacks might have unusual psychological value.	10
17	83	Indeed, we ourselves, until early this morning, had not a full comprehension of our plans, or, indeed, even the ships we would have to carry them out.	10
17	85	The flanking attack, of course, was mounted as late as it was because, until the fleet of Cos and Tyros had shortened their lines and concentrated their ships, to meet our earlier moves, it would have been impractical.	10
17	86	Hopefully, the terror of being taken in the flank might cause many captains, or even Chenbar himself, to have the fleet put about, and, if so, this would make their ships the most vulnerable to our own.	10
17	87	We saw my second-wave ships sweep past, the pairs scattering themselves, each pair following its assigned task force.	10
17	89	I kept in reserve fifty-five tarn ships, which, simultaneously with the fifth wave, that of the flanking fleets, would draw within signal distance of the Dorna.	10
17	132	As I watched, the long, strung-out line of round ships of Port Kar moved past, tacking, scarcely using their oars, their small, triangular storm sails beaten from the north.	10
17	134	It was the latter sail which, although it was unusual, the round ships were using for tacking; had they used either of the larger sails, with the sharp wind, they would have heeled dangerously toward the water, perhaps shipping water through the leeward thole ports.	10
17	135	I smiled as the ships swept past.	10
17	139	The ships of my first wave had now struck the lines of the fleet of Cos and Tyros.	10
17	164	I saw two of the tarn ships of Cos and Tyros, one heeled over in the water, the other slipping stern first beneath the waves.	10
17	169	Several of the ships in the lines near the point where my task force had struck were now coming about to meet their enemy.	10
17	171	I saw the lines of Cos and Tyros shortening, compressing their formations to bring more ships into play at given points.	10
17	175	Astern of the Dorna, not hurrying, at half beat, came fifty tarn ships, their masts high, storm sails bound to their long, sloping yards.	10
17	176	In the turmoil of the battle I had little doubt that they would be taken, at first, and perhaps until it was too late, as a second wave of round ships.	10
17	178	And simultaneously with the initiation of the pincers attack the balance of my fleet, the reserves, fifty-five tarn ships, should draw within signal distance of the Dorna.	10
17	195	Then, as the lines of Cos and Tyros had closed and deepened, to match formations with my task forces, the great encircling line of round ships had cast its net about them.	10
17	198	I was proud of my men and their ships.	10
17	201	And yet, as I sat there, I felt that in time the weight of ships and numbers would be felt.	10
17	203	I could see numerous ships burning in the dark, windswept afternoon.	10
17	205	In places ships were crowded together, in tens and twelves, like floating wooden islands in the sea.	10
17	218	The other ships took their places in four lines behind the command ship of the reserves.	10
17	223	The round ships, slow, much at the mercy of the wind, were now being abandoned as antagonists.	10
17	230	It was very cold, and it now seemed to me that the outcome of the battle was written on that great board, the width of the horizon, the pieces ships and men, which lay burning and smoking in the distance.	10
17	239	Nigel, wise in the ways of sea war, had held back his ships, the wind pounding behind them, that the blades of the pincers might strike simultaneously, as though wielded by a single hand and will.	10
17	247	The tarns crowded into the holds of the round ships were hooded.	10
17	262	We approached the first of the round ships on its leeward side.	10
17	275	"You have, in the ten round ships," I said, "one hundred tarns, with riders".	10
17	359	I saw tarns leaping to the decks of the round ships, and I saw the knotted ropes being attached to the saddles, and picked seamen, experts with the sword, five to a rope, taking their positions.	10
17	363	I saw that the fleets of my fifth wave, the two fleets of forty ships apiece, under the command of Chung and Nigel, were well engaged in their strikes on the flanks of the great fleet.	10
17	381	And then, their fighters disembarked, the birds with their riders swept away, up into the black, vicious sleeting sky, to light the oily rags, one by one, in the clay flasks of tharlarion oil and hurl them, from the heights of the sky, down onto the decks of ships of Cos and Tyros.	10
17	404	The defenders were swimming across to the other tarn ships of Tyros, now swinging about to close with us and board.	10
17	405	Crossbow bolts from the other ships began to fall into the deck of the flagship.	10
17	414	One of the ships of Cos grated against the side of our own.	10
17	426	My men eagerly leaped aboard these two ships.	10
17	428	I could see ships burning in the distance.	10
17	430	The last of the men of Tyros aboard the ship leaped free to the cold waters to swim to their own ships.	10
17	431	I could see some, a hundred yards away, climbing the wales of tarn ships, some clinging to their oars.	10
17	436	"Fight!" he screamed to his distant ships.	10
18	11	Then I said, "Recall our ships".	10
18	12	Men ran to signal ships among the reserves, that they might draw toward our engaged fleet, recalling it.	10
18	14	She, like most tarn ships, was a narrow vessel, long and of shallow draft.	10
18	15	I looked to the round ships.	10
18	19	"Set the storm sail!" Men hastened to do what I had told them, and, as they did so, I sent signals to reserve ships, to be conveyed to the balance of the fleet, that they might save themselves while they could.	10
18	61	I knew that the ships of Eteocles and Sullius Maximus had not been added to our fleet.	10
18	135	I did not see any of the ships of Cos or Tyros.	10
18	638	He must have brought the Venna and the Tela into the wind, cutting away even the storm sails, and risked the destruction of the two ships in the high sea, not to be driven from Port Kar, and then, when the storm had lulled, they had put about and raced for the harbor.	10
18	645	We saw the two ships, the Venna and her sister ship, the Tela, knife into the courtyard and swing about, their bowmen firing on the men running on the promenade and trying to escape about the edges of the courtyard.	10
18	780	"The Ubars Eteocles and Sullius Maximus," he said, "have already fled with their ships and men.	10
18	956	This was an expression, in the first knowledge, for the sea some hundred pasangs west of Cos and Tyros, beyond which the ships of Goreans do not go, or if go, do not return.	10

Book 7. (1 results) Captive of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
11	761	I had seen no ships, nor men, such as they, on this world.	10

Book 8. (1 results) Hunters of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	38	Most commercial voyages, needless to say, are carried out in deeper-keeled, broader-beamed ships, the famed round ships of Thassa.	10

Book 9. (4 results) Marauders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
15	36	Offshore, some few yards, among the other ships, lay new ships, many of them, strange ships.	10
1	31	To my astonishment, however, by the laws of Port Kar, the ships, properties and chattels of Surbus, he having been vanquished in fair combat and permitted the death of blood and sea, became mine; his men stood ready to obey me; his ships became mine to command; his hall became my hall, his riches mi...	10
10	223	"Your long sword," I told him, "is doubtless quite useful in thrusting over the bulwarks of ships, fastened together by grappling irons, as mine would not be, but we are not now, my dear Bjarni, engaging in combat over the bulwarks of ships".	10
22	38	I had lifted my hands to them, standing on the shields, a Jarl of Torvaldsland, one who might now, in his own name if need be, send forth the arrow of war, summoning adherents; one who might, as it pleased him, command ships and men; one who might now say to the rough, bold seamen of the north, as i...	10

Book 11. (4 results) Slave Girl of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
16	224	I knew the waters of Thassa were plied by many ships, and, among them, were the ships of pirates.	10
20	551	The heavy galleys were round ships, large ships, which usually carried bulk goods, such as lumber and stone.	10
22	8	I could see other ships to both the left and right, too, with lateen rigging, both ramships and round ships.	10
22	87	The English expression "starboard" is a contraction of "steering board," and refers to the side of certain ships, particularly northern ships, on which the steering board, or rudder, was to be found.	10

Book 12. (1 results) Beasts of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
12	216	They are, generally, very shallow-drafted, which permits them to come much closer to such ice without the danger that would threaten deeper-keeled craft; too, the Gorean ship, because of the shallow draft, can occasionally run up on such ice, sliding onto it, rather than breaking apart when it strik...	10

Book 13. (5 results) Explorers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	90	The masts of round ships are usually permanently fixed; those of long ships, usually single-masted, are removed before battle; most Gorean ships are lateen-rigged; this permits sailing closer to the wind.	10
1	484	Ar has no navy, being an inland power, but it has developed a fleet of river ships and these, often, skirmish with the river ships of Cos, usually built in Cos, transported to the continent and carried overland to the river.	10
4	385	This makes it possible for merchant ships, round ships, with permanently fixed masts, to move within the city, and, from the military point of view, makes it possible to block canals and also, when drawn back, isolate given areas of the city by the canals which function then as moats.	10
6	335	There must then have been a great many more ships in the harbor, for most ships, naturally, take in their canvas when moored.	10
6	337	Most of the ships, of course, would be small ships, coasting vessels and light galleys.	10

Book 15. (5 results) Rogue of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
29	225	"We are sent ahead, the scout ships of his fleet!" We had only four ships with us, and three were, substantially, empty.	10
29	239	"The ships of Cos," I called to the man on the wall, "are not the ships of Ar!" "But the holds of each may contain fine treasures," he answered.	10
30	58	"How did you know that we were not the scout ships of Ragnar Voskjard?" We had, after all, known the signs and countersigns, and, presumably, those of the holding of Policrates would not be familiar with all of the men or ships of Ragnar Voskjard.	10
31	118	I speculated that these activities were largely connected with the coming and going of scout ships, and supply ships and fitting vessels.	10
33	108	Gorean ships, on the whole, even the round ships, are shallowly drafted vessels.	10

Book 16. (18 results) Guardsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	157	The ships of Ar's Station, with the fleet, seemed more round ships than long ships.	10
8	259	Such things are not uncommon on ships, to protect papers which might be carried in the spray or weather, for example, on a longboat between ships, or between ships and the shore.	10
1	1	Ships of the Voskjard Most Gorean ships have a concave bow, which descends gracefully into the water.	10
4	19	Both had been merchant ships, acting in support of the ships of Port Cos.	10
4	105	Two other ships from behind them, unable to slow themselves sufficiently, struck into the milling ships.	10
4	169	How could Ar, I asked myself, compete with such men and ships upon the mighty Vosk? Laughable were the miserable, squat ships of Ar's Station when compared with the sleek carnivores of Port Cos or, indeed, those of Ragnar Voskjard.	10
4	200	That ships such as those of Ar's Station and of the independent towns, mostly refitted merchantmen, would dare to leave the security of their lines to launch their own attack, not bolstered by the ships of Port Cos, had not entered its ken.	10
4	204	Dozens of ships, trying to come about, maneuvering, milling, struck by other ships, had been trapped against the chain.	10
4	226	I could not but think, bitterly, that if the Voskjard, truly, had had only some fifty ships, as we had gathered from the intelligences supplied to us by Callisthenes, we, if supplemented by the twenty ships of Callisthenes, yet to appear, would now have outnumbered him.	10
5	140	Their ships are undermanned!" To be sure we had noted, earlier, the wreckage of at least four of the ships of Ar's Station, including two of her heavy-class galleys, the Tullia and the Publia.	10
5	199	These constructions, some twenty-five feet in length, and some seven feet in width, as the pirates scattered back in their path, crashed downward, their great bent spikes shattering into the decking of the pirate ships, anchoring the ships together, yet holding them some seven or eight feet apart.	10
6	64	These five ships, this small, uneasy, slender line, were all we had to oppose the might of the Voskjard, surely still some twenty-eight or twenty-nine ships, now being marshaled off our bows.	10
6	108	"Ships! Ships astern!" cried an officer from the stern castle.	10
6	144	These ships, advancing from the south, were clearly ships of the Voskjard.	10
7	16	The ships of the Voskjard so pressed about our three ships that they could not use their rams or shearing blades.	10
9	116	Using this as a diversion the Tina and the Tais, with Aemilianus, and the crew and men of the Olivia, with captured pennons from prize ships taken earlier from the Voskjard, had permitted other ships, like sharks, to pass them, following the light of the Olivia, taking that light for the locale of b...	10
16	46	"Back to the ships!" "Back to the ships!" called Ragnar Voskjard.	10
20	329	"There must be levies of men and ships, from the signatory towns," Glyco was saying to Callimachus, "rotations of men, and perhaps, too, of ships.	10

Book 24. (1 results) Vagabonds of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	277	Survivors of Ar's Station, which had been Ar's major bastion on the Vosk, including many women and children, had been rescued from the piers of the burning port by a fleet of unidentified ships, ships with which the Cosians in the north had not had the forces to deal.	10

Book 26. (1 results) Witness of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
11	1376	"If it is another world," said a fellow, "how can ships sail there?" "They are special ships," he was informed.	10

Book 28. (2 results) Kur of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	158	I personally suspect that this lapse of attentiveness or this seemingly tolerant permissiveness, or this seeming lack of zeal, on the part of Priest-Kings, and their ships, presumably mostly automated and remotely controlled, has less to do with technological limitations than with some reordering of...	10
81	21	Cabot suspected that certain ships, larger ships, might remain in orbit, while communication to and from a planetary surface might take place by means of shuttle craft.	10

Book 29. (4 results) Swordsmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
38	291	Round ships, incidentally, commonly made use of slaves, fastened to the benches, but the long ships, ships of war, commonly relied on free oarsmen, for reasons which, I suppose, are obvious.	10
2	384	The northern ships commonly have a single steering board, whereas most of the southern ships are double helmed.	10
3	154	The "round ships" are cargo ships.	10
40	5	Other ships, with bolder governors, many with ladders and irons, clung to her flanks, clustered about her, like insects, but their ladders were unavailing, foolish against this behemoth's sides, and what arm had the strength to cast an iron so high that it might engage the railings towering above? M...	10

Book 30. (9 results) Mariners of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	197	Stories had it that they rode within ships, but strange ships, round, flat ships, like disks, disks of metal, which moved like clouds, swift as thought, in silence.	10
2	20	The season was nearly over, the time when ships were taken from the water for their wintering, the time when rational mariners withdrew wisely from lashing, gleaming Thassa, leaving her, the mother, to her moods of violence, to her towering, rushing, lifting waves, higher than the masts of round shi...	10
2	44	That is just as well, of course, for the bulwarks provide some protection from arrow fire, certainly from most long ships, which, like us, unlike many round ships, are low in the water.	10
7	31	It is not unusual, on large ships, round ships, and longer voyages, for slave girls to be brought aboard.	10
7	48	But did they not court the collar? Do they not now find their fulfillment in the chains they wished to wear? But women, free or slave, are seldom allowed on the long ships, the ships of war.	10
7	149	Why had he not performed, or had performed, the simple ceremony of pacifying Thassa, of seeking to smooth her waves with a bit of oil, of mingling man's salt with hers, to plead kinship, friendship, even alliance, of giving her some wine, that she might be warmed, and pleased? Would it not have been...	10
7	169	The long ships are commonly open to the weather, like the dragons of Torvaldsland, and the round ships, larger and slower, are commonly decked, this to shelter passengers, if there be passengers, and protect cargo.	10
13	127	"And the ships are merchant ships, apparently, and, one supposes, would be crewed accordingly, with complements sufficient to the vessel, and perhaps little beyond that".	10
16	297	"Sails, ho! Ships! Ships!" "How many?" called Cabot.	10

Book 32. (6 results) Smugglers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	45	In what way then might I have such value, that others might not? Too, I was curious about the ships, the smaller ships, not the round ships, which were coasting north.	10
6	117	Their agents are hiring ships, and recruiting men, many ships, many men.	10
6	217	To be sure, there seemed little danger on the ships, the sky ships, save at departure and arrival, leaving or re-entering the atmosphere.	10
8	17	It was from such wharves that the small ships, mostly coasting vessels, not round ships, one every two or three days, had been plying north.	10
8	519	Two ships, together, are accounted safer than two ships, taken singly.	10
41	263	I would not know the names of ships, or captains, or types of ships, or what they carried, or what I might be doing on such a voyage, and so on.	10

Book 33. (1 results) Rebels of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
21	33	"It is common on ships," I said, "particularly round ships, merchant ships".	10

Book 34. (5 results) Plunder of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
32	21	The ships, the long ships, or knife ships, and the round ships, the freighters and coasters, seemed dark in the night, and disquieting, like quiet, watching, lurking things.	10
27	21	The masts of round ships, or cargo ships, are commonly fixed.	10
27	22	Those of war galleys, the long ships or knife ships, are commonly raised and lowered, depending on wind, and battle conditions.	10
32	20	On the knife ships the masts were down; on the round ships no canvas was slung to the yards.	10
32	22	On some of the ships, the knife ships, canvas was stretched between the bulwarks, to shield the deck.	10

Book 35. (3 results) Quarry of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	130	Brundisium is a major port, her mighty harbor berthing vessels from a thousand ports, vessels large and small, square-rigged and lateen-rigged, clinker built and carvel built, ships mercantile and naval, round ships and long ships, come from as far as Schendi in the south, and Torvaldsland to the no...	10
43	174	Fear rather terrible ships yet unseen, narrow ships, swift and long oared, even now coursing in our wake".	10
46	22	In addition, a convoy of merchant ships, the grain fleet, five ships from Brundisium, guarded by three longships, were moored in the arsenal harbor.	10

Book 36. (23 results) Avengers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
5	61	"We slipped between the two nearest ships, but they did not immediately turn and pursue us, but waited for four more ships, and then the six ships, together, began the pursuit".	10
22	94	"But," said Sakim, "what if three ships, round ships of Brundisium, splendid ships with rich cargos, leave the harbor unexpectedly early, to elude pirates.	10
25	23	"It is one thing," I said, "for four fifty-oared ships and two thirty-oared ships to separate, assuming the appearance of innocent merchantmen, and lose themselves in the harbor at Sybaris, but it seems that seven knife ships, new and armed, might be an entirely different story".	10
49	113	Stakes and ropes are sometimes used as well to anchor ships in place, particularly 'round ships', which have somewhat broader beams than 'knife ships'.	10
2	117	"How can such forces indefinitely, at least six burdened ships, coming and going, venturing out and returning, time and time again, elude patrol ships, sightings?" asked Tab.	10
5	71	"Aktis once spoke of six ships in the attack on Nicosia, four large ships, and two smaller.	10
5	90	"How could so many ships be concealed? Surely they, purportedly ships of Bosk of Port Kar, must be hunted relentlessly by Cos, a power at sea, an inveterate foe of Port Kar".	10
7	180	I had no wish to pit my two ships, with their crews, against an enemy far superior in ships and men.	10
8	58	"Ships! Ships! I make out four, no, five, no, six!" "The corsair fleet!" said Clitus.	10
17	283	"You will pay, staters and tarn disks, to have certain ships, your ships, those of your party, exempt from attack, kept immune to predation.	10
17	284	You wish your ships and goods to be safe on the seas, while the ships of others remain at hazard or fear to leave port".	10
18	190	Who knew? Perhaps his own ships might turn to piracy themselves, seizing riches and even ships which might later be refitted as corsairs themselves.	10
22	49	They are knife ships, fighting ships.	10
22	96	"Three round ships, together or not, would be easy prey for seven knife ships," I said.	10
29	238	It is true that our two ships, one of merely twenty oars, are grossly overmatched by the seven ships of the corsair fleet.	10
37	6	"Some ships at closed piers may be corsair ships," said Clitus.	10
37	23	Some ships, crowded together, sterns to the dock, protected themselves from other ships with thick coils of cushioning rope dangling over their gunwales.	10
41	72	On the second day, the ships in the harbor, large and small round ships, fishing boats, coasters, and sundry small vessels, were attacked, looted, and burned.	10
47	10	The corsair ships did not risk coming within range of the peasant archery but sent forth a small fleet of longboats to ferry their mercenaries to the safety of the ships.	10
52	90	The enemy has taught the island to associate feeding with ships, so it seeks ships".	10
54	18	Some ships use a mechanical device, rather like a metronome, to guide the keleustes in his work, in governing his striking on the metal drum, but most captains of knife ships do not avail themselves of this aid, regarding it as of little worth.	10
55	8	"The Brigand Island, in all its simplicity, enormity, and inert sluggishness, has been trained to associate ships, some ships, randomly selected, with a reward, a feeding.	10
58	148	Which of the enemy ships, I wondered, now served as the enemy fleet's flagship? The position of the four enemy ships was now as follows.	10