Book 13. (1 results) Explorers of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 32 | 554 | No marks of war or View more quotes about fire">fire, or other forms of sudden destruction, had been discernible. |
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Book 13. (7 results) Explorers of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 32 | 551 | The architecture of the city was identical to that of the ruins we had earlier visited, but this city was not in ruins. |
| 32 | 552 | It was a living city, populated, thriving, hidden in the jungle. |
| 32 | 553 | It was not known what had become of the population of the city which had been permitted to fall into ruins. |
| 32 | 554 | No marks of war or fire, or other forms of sudden destruction, had been discernible. |
| 32 | 555 | Meals had apparently been left uneaten, and fires untended. |
| 32 | 556 | At a given point, perhaps determined by their priests or chiefs, for no reason that is clear to us, the population, it seemed, had abandoned the city, marching away into the jungles. |
| 32 | 557 | The fate of the population was one of anthropology's mysteries. |
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The architecture of the city was identical to that of the ruins we had earlier visited, but this city was not in ruins.
It was a living city, populated, thriving, hidden in the jungle.
It was not known what had become of the population of the city which had been permitted to fall into ruins.
No marks of war or fire, or other forms of sudden destruction, had been discernible.
Meals had apparently been left uneaten, and fires untended.
At a given point, perhaps determined by their priests or chiefs, for no reason that is clear to us, the population, it seemed, had abandoned the city, marching away into the jungles.
The fate of the population was one of anthropology's mysteries.
- (Explorers of Gor)