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| 19 | 130 | A considerable amount of plunder, View more quotes about presumably">presumably for good measure, had been acquired, as well. |
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| 19 | 127 | It was a response to a presumed insult on the part of an administrator of a distant city, something to the effect that those of this city, whose name I did not yet know, were at best cowards and petty thieves, capable of no more than making off with an occasional slave. |
| 19 | 128 | Accordingly that city, smug in its supposed security, had been saved for last, for the final strike of the expedition. |
| 19 | 129 | The result of the administrator's indiscreet remark was that now more than four hundred of that city's free women, almost all of high caste as it turned out, were now on their knees, shackled, on the docking area. |
| 19 | 130 | A considerable amount of plunder, presumably for good measure, had been acquired, as well. |
| 19 | 131 | If slaves had been taken, they had been disposed of elsewhere. |
| 19 | 132 | That is not hard to do, as there is always a market for them. |
| 19 | 133 | Too, what room would there have been for slaves? The numerous baskets, the arrayed booty rings, the varieties of saddle straps, and such, were already "taken," so to speak—by free women. |