Book 30. (1 results) Mariners of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 25 | 14 | From each View more quotes about station">station arrow fire might rake the side of the plateau. |
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Book 30. (7 results) Mariners of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 25 | 11 | A small group of skilled climbers, approaching at night, might have reached the foot of the walls, but it seemed that an ascent of the plateau by any large group, certainly undetected, would have been unlikely. |
| 25 | 12 | Three additional precautions tended to militate against a practical ascent of the plateau, one of which was quite new to me. |
| 25 | 13 | Comprehensible enough was the precaution of symmetrically placed, projecting guard stations built into the side of the plateau, each manned by two ashigaru. |
| 25 | 14 | From each station arrow fire might rake the side of the plateau. |
| 25 | 15 | No point on the plateau was not accessible to fire from two directions. |
| 25 | 16 | Each station, too, was equipped with a drum, by means of which signals could be conveyed. |
| 25 | 17 | A second precaution, sensibly enough, was the nightly illumination of the plateau, though dimly, by lanterns. |
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A small group of skilled climbers, approaching at night, might have reached the foot of the walls, but it seemed that an ascent of the plateau by any large group, certainly undetected, would have been unlikely.
Three additional precautions tended to militate against a practical ascent of the plateau, one of which was quite new to me.
Comprehensible enough was the precaution of symmetrically placed, projecting guard stations built into the side of the plateau, each manned by two ashigaru.
From each station arrow fire might rake the side of the plateau.
No point on the plateau was not accessible to fire from two directions.
Each station, too, was equipped with a drum, by means of which signals could be conveyed.
A second precaution, sensibly enough, was the nightly illumination of the plateau, though dimly, by lanterns.
- (Mariners of Gor)