Book 13. (1 results) Explorers of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 32 | 557 | The fate of the population was one of anthropology's mysteries. |
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Book 13. (7 results) Explorers of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 32 | 554 | No View more quotes about marks">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. |
| 32 | 558 | I was thrust toward the city. |
| 32 | 559 | I, perhaps alone of all white people, now understood, or thought I understood, what had become of the population of the city which, over centuries, had fallen into ruins. |
| 32 | 560 | They had come here, it seemed, to this point in the jungle, and, here, had rebuilt their city. |
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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.
I was thrust toward the city.
I, perhaps alone of all white people, now understood, or thought I understood, what had become of the population of the city which, over centuries, had fallen into ruins.
They had come here, it seemed, to this point in the jungle, and, here, had rebuilt their city.
- (Explorers of Gor)