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I hurried forward, with hundreds, thinking to see, for the first time, a great trade fort which might control the trade of the Alexandra, but I stopped, stunned, as others, at the forest's edge, for below, seemingly small in the distance, was what I knew must, from the distance, be the remains of an enormous framework, now empty, a long, wide dock, and, moored at the dock, what seemed a ship, a great ship, a ship like no other, less a ship than an island of wood, a floating city, carved in a ship's likeness. - (Smugglers of Gor, Chapter 16, Sentence #24)

Our tools were the sword and spear, not the ax, the adz, the plane, the saw. An end had apparently come to the seemingly endless round of cutting and hauling, lopping, the rough shaping, and rude trimming, to the backbreaking labor in the forest, the purpose of which was never explained to us. On the morning of the fourth day, we came to a rise from which we could see the Alexandra, like a ribbon below us, and, ahead, men cried out in wonder. I hurried forward, with hundreds, thinking to see, for the first time, a great trade fort which might control the trade of the Alexandra, but I stopped, stunned, as others, at the forest's edge, for below, seemingly small in the distance, was what I knew must, from the distance, be the remains of an enormous framework, now empty, a long, wide dock, and, moored at the dock, what seemed a ship, a great ship, a ship like no other, less a ship than an island of wood, a floating city, carved in a ship's likeness. "It is the ship of Tersites!" said a man. "There is no such thing," said another. Surely we had all dismissed the rumors, the stories told in the taverns. - (Smugglers of Gor)