Book 10. (1 results) Tribesmen of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 14 | 205 | It View more quotes about takes">takes weeks to starve, but only, in the Tahari, two days to die of thirst. |
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Book 10. (7 results) Tribesmen of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 14 | 202 | It was generally dried fruit and bread, and a bit of salt, to compensate for the salt loss during the day's march, consequent on perspiration. |
| 14 | 203 | Proteins, meat, kaiila milk, vulo eggs, verr cheese, require much water for their digestion. |
| 14 | 204 | When water is in short supply, the nomads do not eat at all. |
| 14 | 205 | It takes weeks to starve, but only, in the Tahari, two days to die of thirst. |
| 14 | 206 | In such circumstances, one does not wish the processes of digestion to drain much needed water from the body tissues. |
| 14 | 207 | The bargain would be an ill one to strike. |
| 14 | 208 | Ibn Saran had turned his kaiila toward Hassan. |
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It was generally dried fruit and bread, and a bit of salt, to compensate for the salt loss during the day's march, consequent on perspiration.
Proteins, meat, kaiila milk, vulo eggs, verr cheese, require much water for their digestion.
When water is in short supply, the nomads do not eat at all.
It takes weeks to starve, but only, in the Tahari, two days to die of thirst.
In such circumstances, one does not wish the processes of digestion to drain much needed water from the body tissues.
The bargain would be an ill one to strike.
Ibn Saran had turned his kaiila toward Hassan.
- (Tribesmen of Gor)