Book 30. (1 results) Mariners of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 3 | 63 | For View more quotes about example">example, watch bars are not used on a long ship, a ship of war. |
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Book 30. (7 results) Mariners of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 3 | 60 | Some differences occur, port to port, Ubarate to Ubarate. |
| 3 | 61 | Some round ships do not have recourse to bars, at all, but use clepsydras, sand glasses, and such, to mark watches, and use watch keepers to alert or rouse the pertinent watch. |
| 3 | 62 | In this way the ship may move in silence. |
| 3 | 63 | For example, watch bars are not used on a long ship, a ship of war. |
| 3 | 64 | On such ships bars may, however, serve other purposes, signaling and such. |
| 3 | 65 | On some ships they time the stroke of oars, but this is more commonly done by mallets on a copper-headed drum, or, if silence is in order, by calling the beat, from amidships. |
| 3 | 66 | As mentioned, I heard no bars. |
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Some differences occur, port to port, Ubarate to Ubarate.
Some round ships do not have recourse to bars, at all, but use clepsydras, sand glasses, and such, to mark watches, and use watch keepers to alert or rouse the pertinent watch.
In this way the ship may move in silence.
For example, watch bars are not used on a long ship, a ship of war.
On such ships bars may, however, serve other purposes, signaling and such.
On some ships they time the stroke of oars, but this is more commonly done by mallets on a copper-headed drum, or, if silence is in order, by calling the beat, from amidships.
As mentioned, I heard no bars.
- (Mariners of Gor)