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Delta

Book 1. (3 results) Tarnsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
12	60	I knew that I would not, some days hence, reach the delta of the Vosk and the cities in the delta except perhaps as a bound corpse, withered by exposure and the lack of water.	10
9	104	It is a city in the delta of the Vosk and as much a den of pirates as anything else.	10
12	61	Indeed, it was unlikely my body would reach the delta at all.	10

Book 2. (2 results) Outlaw of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	22	Also, at night, crossing the bright disks of Gor's three moons might occasionally be seen the silent, predatory shadow of the ul, a giant pterodactyl ranging far from its native swamps in the delta of the Vosk.	10
21	229	And many of the cities of Gor were represented on that chain, sometimes spoken of as the Slaver's Necklace—there was a blond girl from lofty Thentis, a dark-skinned girl with black hair that fell to her ankles from the desert city of Tor, girls from the miserable streets of Port Kar in the de...	10

Book 3. (1 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	152	Treve's other needs seemed to be satisfied much in the same way as her agricultural ones, for her raiders were known from the borders of the Fair of En'Kara, in the very shadow of the Sardar, to the delta of the Vosk and the islands beyond, such as Tyros and Cos.	10

Book 4. (3 results) Nomads of Gor

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7	154	Then, from within the collar, he drew forth a thin, folded piece of paper, rence paper, made from the fibers of the rence plant, a tall, long-stalked leafy plant which grows predominantly in the delta of the Vosk.	10
7	155	I suppose, in itself, this meant nothing, but I naturally thought of Port Kar, malignant, squalid Port Kar, which claims suzerainty over the delta, exacting cruel tributes from the rence growers, great stocks of rence paper for trade, sons for oarsmen in cargo galleys, daughters for Pleasure Slaves ...	10
7	168	This again suggested the delta of the Vosk.	10

Book 5. (4 results) Assassin of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
5	198	The only city I know of on Gor which was built by the labor of slaves, beneath the lash of masters, is Port Kar, which lies in the delta of the Vosk.	10
15	3	The music was wild, a melody of the delta of the Vosk.	10
17	135	The only exception to this that I know of is Port Kar, in the delta of the Vosk.	10
19	368	Never has a slave girl escaped from canaled Port Kar, protected on one side by the interminable, rush-grown delta of the Vosk, on the other by the broad tides of the Tamber Gulf, and beyond it, the vast, blue, gleaming, perilous Thassa.	10

Book 6. (63 results) Raiders of Gor

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1	50	On river barges, for hundreds of pasangs, I had made my way down the Vosk, but where the mighty Vosk began to break apart and spread into its hundreds of shallow, constantly shifting channels, becoming lost in the vast tidal marshes of its delta, moving toward gleaming Thassa, the Sea, I had abandon...	10
3	82	Between Se'Kara and the winter solstice, which occurs on the first of Se'Var, the rence will be sold or bartered, sometimes by taking it to the edge of the delta, sometimes by being contacted by rence merchants, who enter the delta in narrow barges, rowed by slaves, in order to have first pick of th...	10
18	596	On the delta wall, opposite, I saw the leader of the crossbowmen, standing even on the parapet of the delta wall itself, directing his men.	10
1	56	No one had been found who would guide me into the delta of the Vosk.	10
1	57	The bargemen of the Vosk will not take their wide, broad-bottomed craft into the delta.	10
1	58	The channels of the Vosk, to be sure, shift from season to season, and the delta is often little more than a trackless marsh, literally hundreds of square pasangs of estuarial wilderness.	10
1	60	The most important reason for not finding a guide, of course, even among the eastern rence growers, is that the delta is claimed by Port Kar, which lies within it, some hundred pasangs from its northwestern edge, bordering on the shallow Tamber Gulf, beyond which is gleaming Thassa, the Sea.	10
1	65	I was in the delta of the Vosk, and making my way to the city of Port Kar, which alone of Gorean cities commonly welcomes strangers, though few but exiles, murderers, outlaws, thieves and cutthroats would care to find their way to her canaled darknesses.	10
1	70	I was not particularly surprised at finding a bit of rep-cloth tied on the rence plant, for the delta is inhabited.	10
1	72	There are scattered, almost invisible, furtive communities of rence growers who eke out their livelihood in the delta, nominally under the suzerainty of Port Kar.	10
1	77	The root, which is woody and heavy, is used for certain wooden tools and utensils, which can be carved from it; also, when dried, it makes a good fuel; from the stem the rence growers can make reed boats, sails, mats, cords and a kind of fibrous cloth; further, its pith is edible, and for the rence ...	10
1	83	The rence growers market their product either at the eastern or western end of the delta.	10
1	84	Sometimes rence merchants, on narrow marsh craft rowed by slaves, enter some pasangs into the delta to negotiate the transactions, usually from the western edge, that bordering the Tamber Gulf.	10
1	93	I had been in the delta now for some sixteen days, drifting and paddling toward Thassa.	10
1	101	I had come into an area of the delta where I was not welcome, into a territory that must be claimed by some small community, doubtless, of rence growers.	10
1	103	Not only must they fear the marsh sharks and the carnivorous eels which frequent the lower delta, not to mention the various species of aggressive water tharlarion and the winged, monstrous, hissing, predatory Ul, but they must fear, perhaps most of all, men, and of these, most of all, the men of Po...	10
1	104	As I have mentioned, Port Kar claims the suzerainty of the delta.	10
1	105	Accordingly, frequently, bands of armed men, maintaining allegiance to one or the other of the warring, rival Ubars of Port Kar, enter the delta to, as they say, collect taxes.	10
3	10	In times of emergency the inhabitants of the island gather behind wickerlike breastworks, woven of rence, in the area of the center wells; in such an emergency the low-ceilinged rence huts on the island will have been knocked down to prevent an enemy from using them for cover, and all food and water...	10
3	91	Why should there be so many rence islands in the same vicinity, even though it was near the first of Se'Kara? Surely the capture of one traveler in the delta did not warrant this attention, and, of course, the islands must have been gathered together even before I had entered the area.	10
3	180	"There are peasants who live along the edges of the delta, particularly to the east".	10
3	190	Ho-Hak once again sat down on the curved shell of the great Vosk sorp, that shell that served him as throne in this his domain, an island of rence in the delta of the Vosk.	10
4	65	The sun, though it was late afternoon, was still hot, and it was humid in the delta of the Vosk, and my hands ached, and were blistered.	10
4	73	Naked, without weapons, alone in the delta, without aid, I could not escape.	10
4	133	There are others, of course, elsewhere in the delta".	10
4	229	Then on an island of rence in the delta of the Vosk I had learned myself, that I was, in the core of myself, ignoble and craven, worthless and fearing, only coward.	10
7	167	She, too, would make a craft, take a pole, and find her way deeper into the delta, doubtless to be accepted by another of the small rence communities.	10
8	22	It is sometimes difficult for even a small rence craft to make its way through the tangles of rushes and sedge in the delta.	10
8	30	He had removed his helmet in the noon heat of the delta.	10
8	339	In the marshes of the delta of the Vosk I had lost Tarl Cabot.	10
8	345	As I, in the chair of the oar-master, faced the bow of the vessel, he, as slave at the benches, faced its stern, and the chair of the oar-master, that which now served me as Ubar's throne, in this small wooden country lost in the marshes of the Vosk's delta.	10
8	532	Here, on this wooden land lost in the delta marshes, I was Ubar.	10
8	711	"This time," she asked, "will you perhaps throw me up the stairs?" "The mouths of rence girls," commented Clitus, "are said to be as large as the delta itself".	10
8	759	"As large as the delta itself," commented Clitus.	10
9	25	We had come to one of the canals bordering on the delta.	10
9	93	Those buildings which face outwards, say, either at the delta or along the shallow Tamber Gulf, have no windows on the outward side, and the outward walls of them are several feet thick, and they are surmounted, on the roofs, with crenelated parapets.	10
9	94	The canals which open into the delta or the Tamber were, in the last few years, fitted with heavy, half-submerged gates of bars.	10
9	109	Further, of course, it is next to impossible to bring large bodies of armed men through the delta of the Vosk, or, under the conditions of the marsh, to supply them or maintain them in a protracted siege.	10
9	110	The delta itself is Port Kar's strongest wall.	10
9	133	The nearest solid land was about one hundred pasangs to the north, but it was open land, and, there, on the edges of the delta, there were log outposts of Port Kar, where slave hunters and trained sleen, together, patrolled the marshes' edges.	10
9	137	That left the delta, with its interminable marshes, and the thirst, and the tharlarion.	10
9	161	And even should she, somehow, fall, her men need only take ship, and then, when it pleased them, return, ordering slaves again to build in the delta a city called Port Kar.	10
13	12	I put to them, the Ubars of Cos and Tyros, as well as I could, the proposals of the Council of Captains of Port Kar, that there would be concord, and doubtless an opening of commerce, between the two Ubarates and the maligned city in the Vosk's delta, my own Port Kar.	10
13	178	"Are you not the one who, in the delta of the Vosk, was overcome by vast numbers of rencers, and forced to abandon your barges, and a treasure of rence paper and slaves?" "This man is dangerous," said Lysias to Chenbar.	10
13	512	By the end of the second month the flag of Bosk, carried by one ship or another, was known from Ianda to Torvaldsland, and from the delta of the Vosk to the throne rooms of Cos and Tyros.	10
17	153	Is anything worth so much as a human life? Is not the most abject surrender preferable to the risk of its loss? Is it not better to grovel as a slave, begging the favor of life from a master, than to risk the loss of even one life? I recalled that I, once, in the far marshes of the delta of the Vosk...	10
18	181	"The mouths of rence girls," I said, "are said to be as large as the delta itself".	10
18	237	"We are defending the keep near the delta wall," he said.	10
18	296	The keep is near the delta wall of the holding.	10
18	297	We could, from the ramparts, look out over the marsh, stretching far beyond, that vast, beautiful delta of the great Vosk, through which I had come, so long ago.	10
18	450	I found some beams and rope, and a pole, bound together a simple raft and through one of the delta canals, which were not then barred, made my escape.	10
18	520	The last four arrows of the great yellow bow were fired, and four who threatened us fell from the delta wall beyond the keep, from which they were attempting to cover the climb of the besiegers.	10
18	553	I looked out over the delta.	10
18	594	And across from the keep, on the delta wall, boldly, there stood crossbowmen, now without fear, for our arrows and bolts were gone, to cover the climbing men.	10
18	598	Then, to my amazement, I saw something, like a streak of light, leap from the delta behind the wall, and the leader of the crossbowmen spun about as though struck with a war hammer and dropped, inert, from the wall.	10
18	603	Suddenly more than a hundred irons with ropes struck the delta wall, wedging in the crenels, and I saw the irons tighten in the crenels and strain with the weight on them.	10
18	604	One of the crossbowmen looked over the delta wall and flew backwards off the wall, his hands not reaching his head.	10
18	608	Then, swarming over the delta wall, were hundreds of men.	10
18	611	In perfect order they stood in line within the parapet on the delta wall.	10
18	714	We went outside, and saw Ho-Hak slowly climb the long, narrow stairs beside the delta wall, until he stood behind the parapet, at its height.	10
18	716	At the foot of the delta wall there would be tharlarion.	10
18	806	They would return to their rence craft tied at the foot of the delta wall.	10
18	818	The rencers, one by one, were climbing down ropes over the delta wall, returning to their small craft below.	10

Book 7. (9 results) Captive of Gor

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15	433	Other girls had prepared the repast, which, for the war camp, was sumptuous indeed, containing even oysters from the delta of the Vosk, a portion of the plunder of a tarn caravan of Ar, such delicacies having been intended for the very table of Marlenus, the Ubar of that great city itself.	10
17	238	I was taken, on tarnback, braceleted and hooded, to the city of Port Kar, in the delta of the mighty Vosk.	10
17	492	Before that time it is my wont to wander the delta wall of the house of Bosk.	10
18	42	"You have not forgotten the delta of the Vosk?" she asked.	10
18	45	I could never forget the delta of the Vosk, and my degradation.	10
18	69	I looked across to the delta wall, bordering the marshes.	10
18	78	I watched her lone, forlorn figure, looking out over the delta wall.	10
18	85	The tarn's talons struck the delta wall, and, wings beating, it clung there, and put back its head and screamed.	10
18	102	"She has been taken from you!" "Fetch me," I said, "the object which was thrown to the walk behind the delta wall".	10

Book 8. (5 results) Hunters of Gor

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1	99	I recalled, angrily, with a burning shame, the delta of the Vosk, when I, though of the Warriors, once, on my knees, begged the ignominy of slavery to the freedom of honorable death.	10
1	166	Would she refuse the gold, the gems, the silks and silvers, and spilling coins, the choice wines, the servants and slaves, the security of the house of Bosk for the lonely freedoms and silences of the salt marshes of the Vosk's vast delta? Did she expect me to hasten after her, piteously begging her...	10
1	276	In the morning, from the house of Bosk, in the far city, bordering the delta, I shall leave for the northern forests.	10
6	175	Unfortunately for Ar, or perhaps fortunately for the maritime powers of Thassa, it is almost impossible to bring a large ship or barge through the Vosk's delta to the sea.	10
19	445	"Yes," I said, "once long ago, in the delta of the Vosk, I lost my honor.	10

Book 9. (10 results) Marauders of Gor

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1	580	He had, finally, succeeded in making his way into the marshes, in the Vosk's vast delta, where he had been taken in by rencers, who live on islands, woven of rence reeds, in the delta.	10
1	103	And then he had ventured to the delta of the Vosk, to make his way through it, to make contact with Samos of Port Kar, agent of Priest-Kings, to continue in their service.	10
1	104	But in the delta of the Vosk he had lost his honor.	10
1	113	And was it not he who had been victor on the 25th of Se'Kara, in the great engagement of the fleets of Port Kar and Cos and Tyros? He had come to love Telima, and had freed her, but she, when he had learned the location of his former Free Companion, Talena, once daughter of Marlenus of Ar, and resol...	10
1	144	But I had no right to such thoughts, for I had surrendered my honor, my courage, in the delta of the Vosk.	10
1	376	"I took the liberty," said Samos, "though at the time I did not know of your injuries, your paralysis, to inform her of what occurred in the delta of the Vosk".	10
1	383	"You betrayed your codes! You are a coward! A fool! You are not worthy of me! That you dare ask me if I could care for such as you is to me, a free woman, an insult! You chose slavery to death!" "Why did you tell her of the delta of the Vosk?" I asked Samos.	10
1	581	He had become chief of one such group, and was much respected in the delta.	10
3	330	Eight held bows, with arrows at the string; none had dared to approach the ship; the short bow of the Gorean north, with its short, heavy arrows, heavily headed, lacks the range and power of the peasant bow of the south, that now, too, the property of the rencers of the delta, but, at short range, w...	10
22	93	That boy had died in the delta of the Vosk; in his place had come Bosk of Port Kar, ruthless and torn, but grown into his manhood; and now there was another, one whom I might, if I wished, choose to call again Tarl Cabot.	10

Book 10. (1 results) Tribesmen of Gor

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1	15	I could see, high on the map, Ax Glacier, Torvaldsland, and Hunjer and Skjern, and Helmutsport, and, lower, Kassau and the great green forests, and the river Laurius, and Laura and Lydius, and, lower, the islands, prominent among them Cos and Tyros; I saw the delta of the Vosk, and Port Kar, and, in...	10

Book 11. (2 results) Slave Girl of Gor

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10	54	The Vosk is a mighty river which flows westward, emptying into a vast rence delta, finding its way eventually to Thassa, the sea.	10
16	183	Cos lies north of Tyros and west of Port Kar, which latter city is located in the Tamber Gulf, which lies just beyond the Vosk's delta.	10

Book 12. (1 results) Beasts of Gor

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1	266	With a rope and hook he descended the delta wall".	10

Book 13. (5 results) Explorers of Gor

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1	202	Turmus was the last major river port on the Vosk before the almost impassable marshes of the delta.	10
1	485	The delta of the Vosk, for most practical purposes, a vast marsh, an area of thousands of square pasangs, where the Vosk washes down to the sea, is closed to shipping.	10
1	487	It is also inhabited by the rencers, who live upon rence islands, woven of the rence reed, masters of the long bow, usually obtained in trade with peasants to the east of the delta.	10
3	19	It was a crowded city, built up from the marshes themselves, in the Vosk's delta, and space was scarce and precious.	10
4	340	Also, though this would not figure in her thinking, she could, on the north, east and south, be trapped against the delta walls or at the marsh gates.	10

Book 15. (4 results) Rogue of Gor

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6	132	The major towns west of Port Cos, discounting minor towns, were Tetrapoli, Ven and Turmus, Ven at the junction of the Ta-Thassa Cartius and the Vosk, and Turmus, at the eastern end of the Vosk's great delta, the last town on the river itself.	10
7	126	"Doubtless they also harry the trade routes circumventing the delta of the Vosk?" I asked.	10
19	74	Other generally respected coins tend to be the silver tarsk of Tharna, the golden tarn disk of Ko-ro-ba, and the golden tarn of Port Kar, the latter particularly on the western Vosk, in the Tamber Gulf region, and a few hundred pasangs north and south of the Vosk's delta.	10
29	36	"It was forged in Cos, in a thousand lengths," said Glyco, "and brought overland, around the delta, and on galleys east from Turmus.	10

Book 17. (9 results) Savages of Gor

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2	115	Port Kar used to seek slaves in the delta itself but, some years ago, the men of the delta learned the great bow, the peasant bow, and since that time such raids have almost ceased.	10
1	1	Kog and Sardak; The Parley in the Delta "How many are there?" I asked Samos.	10
1	195	We were in the remains of a half-fallen, ruined tarn complex, built on a wide platform, at the edge of the rence marshes, some four pasangs from the northeast delta gate of Port Kar.	10
1	234	We had come to this place, through the northeast delta gate, in a squarish, enclosed barge.	10
2	101	It might be mentioned in passing that Port Kar's location, with its access to the Vosk Delta, its position in the Tamber Gulf, and its having gleaming Thassa herself lapping at her sea walls, is a not unenviable one for commerce.	10
2	117	The fellows in the delta, however, will normally pass barges through to Port Kar, and from Port Kar to the western Vosk region, though usually for a toll.	10
14	1247	I returned to the fire in a few moments, and, on the dirt, in the light of the flames, spread the hide which Samos and I had obtained in the ruined tarn complex some four pasangs from the northeast delta gate of Port Kar.	10
14	1258	"It is in the delta of the Vosk".	10
19	265	It was that in which, rolled, was the story hide and, also, the translator I had brought from Port Kar, that acquired from Kog and Sardak, the Kurii, in the abandoned tarn complex, in the delta.	10

Book 18. (1 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
34	480	Even now, among certain articles on the travois, brought from the lodge of Grunt at the festival camp, was the story hide, acquired long ago in the delta of the Vosk, some four pasangs from Port Kar.	10

Book 20. (4 results) Players of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	991	This had primarily to do with her situation, in the northwestern portion of the estuary of the Vosk, the waters of the Tamber Gulf and Thassa before her, the vast, trackless marshes of the Vosk's delta behind her.	10
2	133	The ticket is of rence paper, which is cheap in Port Kar, owing to its proximity to one of Gor's major habitats for the rence plant, the vast marshes of the Vosk's delta.	10
2	1005	It was filled with golden staters, from Brundisium, a port on the coast of Thassa, on the mainland, a hundred pasangs or so south of the Vosk's delta, one reported to have alliances with Ar.	10
6	1379	"I am interested particularly in one given city," I said, "a port on the coast of Thassa, one south of the Vosk's delta".	10

Book 21. (4 results) Mercenaries of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
15	180	"Do you know the delta of the Vosk?" he asked.	10
15	667	"Why did you ask me about the delta of the Vosk?" I asked.	10
15	670	"You think they will withdraw into the delta?" I asked.	10
15	677	"No sane commander in such a situation could issue orders to enter the delta in force," I said, "certainly not without obtaining guides, accumulating transportation, organizing supplies and support, treating with the natives of the area, and so on".	10

Book 23. (9 results) Renegades of Gor

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18	82	The bodies of delta sharks, leaving the salt water of the delta, bloated, litter the shores between the delta and Ven".	10
2	84	The farthest west town in the league is Turmus, at the delta.	10
2	90	I suppose there are special historical reasons for this, for Victoria is not centrally located on the river, say, between the delta to the west and the entry of the Olni into the Vosk on the east, which point, incidentally, is controlled by the city of Lara, a member of the Salerian Confederation.	10
2	92	Geographical position, accordingly, at least with respect to approximating the midpoint between the delta and the Olni, was apparently not the paramount consideration in locating the headquarters of the Vosk League.	10
18	80	"There, there are two!" "Blood has carried down to the delta," said another bitterly.	10
20	187	Due to its patrols and presence piracy, and certainly large-scale, institutionalized piracy, had been largely removed from the Vosk, from east of White Water, near Lara, a town of the Salerian Confederation at the confluence of the Vosk and Olni, to the delta.	10
24	361	"The delta," said Marcus.	10
24	825	I recalled the delta of the Vosk.	10
24	1069	I thought of Dietrich of Tarnburg, holding Torcadino, of Ar, of Cos, of the expeditionary force in the north, of the forces of Ar, and the delta.	10

Book 24. (263 results) Vagabonds of Gor

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12	155	Now Ar has been lured into the delta! It is no mystery, I tell you, or stroke of unaccountable fortune, that hundreds of craft, of various sorts, were available in Turmus and Ven for the delta expedition.	10
12	157	I do not think that Cos is even in the delta! Surely any intelligent officer must have considered these possibilities! I submit for your consideration that your officer, Saphronicus, himself, is not in the delta!" "No," she said.	10
4	1	The Delta "Through the eye!" I screamed, struggling in the ropes, naked, they tight about my upper body, my hands crossed and bound behind me, fastened closely to my ankles, kneeling in the bow of the small craft, of bound rence.	10
4	73	"I am going to send you to the delta".	10
5	15	The delta is treacherous, and difficult to navigate.	10
5	29	"Am I the only prisoner in the delta?" I asked.	10
5	53	"I have been brought to the delta," I said.	10
5	55	The low, spreading, sloping mound of sand, that bar in the delta, was crowded.	10
5	64	I once saw, outlined against one of the moons, membranous, clawed wings outspread, the soaring shape of the giant, predatory ul, the dreaded winged tharlarion of the delta.	10
6	32	"Surely here, in the delta, there are no arena fighters," said a man.	10
6	38	Rencers live in the delta.	10
6	60	"Consign the body to the delta," said the officer.	10
7	19	This had lured many open-water sharks into the delta and eastward.	10
7	26	At this point in the delta, east of the tidal marshes, the water was still drinkable.	10
8	6	"You know something of the delta, do you not?" asked the fellow who had tethered my ankles, standing near me, looking down at me.	10
8	8	I had once come to Port Kar through the delta.	10
8	11	"We are well within the delta," he said.	10
8	20	The delta, of course, is teeming with wildlife.	10
8	31	"In the delta, one could hide a dozen armies," said another.	10
9	61	In the first days in the delta over two hundred men had been lost, in one case an entire platoon.	10
9	107	Certainly it belonged not in the delta but in some canal or placid waterway.	10
10	46	"For once we shall eat well in the delta".	10
10	91	He was not of the delta.	10
11	19	"In the sanguine prosecution of your espionage, sleen," smiled the officer, "I wager you did not expect to find yourself as you are now, at our mercy, serving us, yoked in the delta".	10
11	31	"Communication is difficult in the delta".	10
11	34	"I submit," I said, "that Saphronicus is not in the delta!" He looked at me, angrily.	10
11	45	It seemed the delta itself rang with their sound.	10
12	20	So, too, might have been any who heard such, here in the delta.	10
12	26	She was small and her figure, obscured to be sure under the heavy fabrics of the robes of concealment, surely uncomfortable, and seemingly incongruous, in the delta, seemed cuddly.	10
12	36	Doubtless there were places other than the delta which she would have preferred to frequent, such as the arcades, the courts and shops of Ar.	10
12	58	"It seems to me unusual," I said, "that such a woman, disowned, disinherited, surely once sequestered in the central cylinder, in disgrace, should be able to post an observer in the delta".	10
12	77	"It is difficult to traverse the delta unscathed," I said, "particularly when one is naked, in the water, harnessed, drawing a raft".	10
12	81	"Doubtless your robes of concealment are uncomfortable in the delta, given the moisture, the heat," I said.	10
12	93	The influence of Cos was strong in the delta, to be sure, there as it was in the western reaches of the Vosk, but I did not think the rencers would be explicit allies of Cos.	10
12	156	But could this have been the case if Cosian forces had earlier entered the delta, in great numbers, to flee the vengeance of Ar? Would they themselves not have taken such craft, or destroyed them, as they could? Where do you think the sympathies of those in Turmus and Ven lie, with Ar, or Cos? Is it...	10
12	158	"Saphronicus is not in the delta".	10
12	161	"Convey these things, I urge you," I said, "to high officers! Have them, if nothing else, investigated! Ar must withdraw from the delta as soon as possible!" "I think not," she laughed.	10
12	182	"You are in the delta, too," I said.	10
12	209	"The robes of concealment must be bulky, hot, uncomfortable in the delta," I said.	10
12	232	"I have not brought such slaves with me into the delta.	10
12	235	"It must be difficult for you," I said, "to be in the delta without serving slaves".	10
12	380	Much more practical for the delta would have been the skimpy garments of female slaves, the brief tunics, the short, open-sided, exciting camisks, the scandalous ta-teeras, or slave rags, indeed, the many varieties of stimulating slave garments, sometimes mere strips and strings, garments deliberate...	10
13	1	We Proceed Further into the Delta "Hold!" whispered a fellow ahead, wading, his hand held back, palm exposed.	10
13	19	For days we had plunged deeper and deeper into the delta, in pursuit of Cosians.	10
13	30	"It is for this reason that you have been brought to the delta," said he, "that you might witness with your own eyes the unavailingness of your espionage and the destruction of your fellows".	10
13	87	"Some think you know the delta," he said to me.	10
13	89	"It is they, if any, who know the delta.	10
13	91	"But you have been in the delta before," he said.	10
13	121	Too, they were strangers to the delta.	10
13	136	"Such are not unknown in the delta".	10
13	141	"You are not of this part of the country," I said, "not from the delta, or the Vosk, or Port Kar," I said.	10
13	166	"This barge," I said, "is of a type used in Port Kar, on the canals, and in the delta, for example, between Port Kar, and other cities, and the Vosk towns, particularly Turmus and Ven, for the transportation, in utter helplessness and total ignorance, of female slaves".	10
13	186	The barge, in its day, I suspected, had frequently plied the delta, probably between Port Kar, and other cities, and Turmus and Ven.	10
13	231	In the last few years, the use of the peasant bow, beginning in the vicinity of the tidal marshes, had spread rapidly eastward throughout the delta.	10
13	232	The materials for the weapon and its missiles, not native to the delta, are acquired largely through trade.	10
13	236	The combination of the delta, with its natural defenses, and the peasant bow, made the rencers all but invulnerable.	10
13	250	To be sure, it was possible to scout rencers, but normally this could be done only by individuals wise to the ways of the delta, in most cases other rencers.	10
13	251	The forces of Ar in the delta, if I were not mistaken, would not have experienced scouts with them.	10
13	252	Even so small a thing as this constituted yet another indication of the precipitateness of Ar, her unreadiness to enter the delta.	10
13	272	"Preferably with open expanses of delta.	10
13	293	"I do not think so," I said, "though I would suppose the Cosians have many friends, and many contacts, in the delta.	10
13	294	They have, for years, cultivated those in the delta.	10
13	300	"Cos comes to the delta with smiles and sweets, as an ally and friend.	10
13	326	"The delta is so huge," said a fellow beside us, on the deck, looking out.	10
13	365	"You are alone in the delta".	10
13	378	"I would recommend the swiftest possible withdrawal from the delta," I said.	10
13	383	"To be sure," I said, bitterly, "you will encounter the least resistance from the rencers to such a march, for it takes you deeper into the delta, and puts you all the more at their mercy".	10
13	397	"You must withdraw from the delta, in force, immediately," I said.	10
13	398	"There are many columns in the delta," said the officer.	10
13	410	"We did not come to the delta to return without Cosian blood on our blades!" said a fellow.	10
13	415	"Saphronicus is not even in the delta!" I said.	10
13	526	I then began to draw it westward, deeper into the delta.	10
14	17	Ar had brought, by most reckonings, some fifty thousand men into the delta.	10
14	59	"You are already deep in the delta".	10
14	61	"Ar," I said, "if you wish to know my opinions on the matter, has been betrayed, in the matter of Ar's Station, in the matter of the disposition of her northern forces, and, now, in her entry, unprepared, into the delta.	10
14	62	You were not prepared to enter the delta.	10
14	67	Obviously, too, you have not been unaware of the deterioration of your transport in the delta.	10
14	71	"Withdraw from the delta, while you can," I said.	10
14	81	"And there is no clear unified command in the delta," I said.	10
14	88	"I would go to great lengths to maintain lines of communication, particularly under the conditions of the delta".	10
14	95	"You do not think Saphronicus is in the delta," he said.	10
14	97	"He is not in the delta".	10
14	121	"Cos," I said, "is not in the delta".	10
14	123	"Perhaps there are some Cosians in the delta," I granted him.	10
14	130	"The expeditionary force of Cos," he said, "entered the delta.	10
14	135	"What I do suggest is that the columns of Cos did not remain in the delta, but, after perhaps a day or two, after having clearly established their entry below Turmus, withdrew".	10
14	137	"Do you really think Cos would choose to meet you in the delta?" "They fled before us, in fear of their lives," said he, angrily.	10
14	145	"They will meet you when you attempt to extricate yourself from the delta," I said.	10
14	153	"The delta itself is her weapon," I said, "and the rencers".	10
14	314	The bar, that island of sand in the delta, was dark.	10
14	325	Arrows, of tem wood, like the ka-la-na wood of their bows, not native to the delta, are precious to the rencers.	10
15	24	Bit by bit, from the reports of men from other units, sometimes coming across us, sometimes found wandering in the marsh, sometimes half mad, we had been able to build up a picture of what was occurring in the delta.	10
15	28	The rear column, then, had fled deeper into the delta.	10
15	29	"They want to keep you in the delta," I had told the officer two nights ago, when unhooded, ungagged, to be fed.	10
15	31	"You must try to break out of the delta!" I had said.	10
15	43	Perhaps some of the deserters might find their way from the delta.	10
16	1	It is Quiet "Cos may not be in the delta," said the officer.	10
16	30	"Some think we should try to withdraw from the delta," he said.	10
16	33	"I think it unlikely that a single column can withdraw successfully from the delta".	10
16	46	Too, your columns must reach the edge of the delta.	10
16	59	Then, even if successful in escaping from the delta, the columns would have to manage the crossing of the Vosk to return to Holmesk, or Ar".	10
16	68	"I still think it possible that Cos is in the delta," he said.	10
16	76	"Cos may be in the delta," he said.	10
16	82	"You are isolated," I said, "probably like most of the other units in the delta.	10
16	85	"I think men will escape the delta," I said.	10
16	90	"But," I said, "I think the only real hope of escape from the delta lies not with units but with individuals, or small groups of such, individuals who might with fortune, and with skill and stealth, elude rencers, the surveillance of tarn scouts, and the patrols of Cos.	10
16	92	Obviously Cos cannot survey the entire delta.	10
16	95	Indeed, I think that an individual, experienced in marshcraft, familiar with techniques of evasion and survival, of penetration and infiltration, traveling alone, moving with care, might easily escape the delta".	10
16	100	"Cos must be in the delta," he whispered.	10
16	111	It had again been hot in the delta today, steaming and oppressive.	10
16	112	Columns must by now have attempted to escape from the delta, I thought.	10
17	8	It was as though these mysterious, elusive denizens of the delta had inexplicably withdrawn, suddenly melted away.	10
17	28	"We with the 7th, the 9th and 11th sought to make exit from the delta!" "Desertion!" cried a fellow.	10
17	36	Many, who could, fled back into the delta!" "Woe!" said a man.	10
17	40	It was now clear, of course, given the references to Cosians, tharlarion, sleen and such, that this disaster was not that of the left flank, which had been struck by rencers, but a defeat suffered in the south, by the units attempting to remove themselves there from the delta.	10
17	42	Their every move in the delta, for days, had probably been reported to the Cosian commander, perhaps Policrates himself, said once to have been a pirate, by tarn scouts.	10
17	120	Three columns had essayed the edge of the delta.	10
17	124	How many fell at the delta's edge, to the north, I could not learn.	10
17	126	It seems men had glimpsed the firm land, grass, and fields, and had rushed weeping, joyfully, toward them, and that it was but Ehn afterward, when the second column had emerged from the delta, that the ambush had been sprung.	10
17	176	Their appearance is rather formidable, and can give one a nasty turn in the delta, but, happily, one soon learns they are harmless, at least to humans.	10
17	197	I had never been in the delta at this particular time.	10
17	207	At such a time, which occurs every summer in the delta, the rencers withdraw to their huts, taking inside with them food and water, and then, with rence, weave shut the openings to the huts.	10
17	213	Most sting flies, or needle flies, as the men from the south call them, originate in the delta, and similar places, estuaries and such, as their eggs are laid on the stems of rence plants.	10
17	215	These peak times are also in part, it is thought, a function of a combination of natural factors, having to do with conditions in the delta, such as temperature and humidity, and, in particular, the relative stability of such conditions.	10
17	217	Once outside the delta the sting flies, which spend most of their adult lives as solitary insects, tend to disperse.	10
17	218	Of the millions of sting flies hatched in the delta each summer, usually over a period of four or five days, a few return each fall, to begin the cycle again.	10
17	223	It seemed to fill the delta.	10
17	366	Such infections had added to the hazards and hardships of the delta.	10
17	382	Too, I did not doubt but what my exit from the delta, of which I now entertained little doubt, might be more felicitously accomplished if I were to take on certain supplies.	10
18	50	I saw with satisfaction the men of Ar take what shelter they could, digging into the sand, pulling blankets about them, covering themselves with rence, wrapping cloths about their head and eyes, burying their head in their arms, doing whatever they could do to prepare themselves for the imminent arr...	10
18	296	It would be dangerous leaving the delta, but I did not think it would be excessively difficult, not for one man traveling alone, one familiar with marshcraft, with techniques of evasion and survival.	10
18	298	The rencer population of the delta is extremely small, actually, and they would presumably, if they were still active, be in the vicinity of the remnants of the forces of Ar.	10
18	299	The chances of running into rencers in thousands of square pasangs of the delta were not high, particularly if one were concerned to avoid them.	10
18	303	Tarn scouts and patrols of Cosians, in the vicinity of the delta's coasts, might be more troublesome.	10
18	314	Too, by that time the flies, or most of them, should have left the delta.	10
19	121	There is little wonder, I thought, that many take the predatory ul, the winged tharlarion, to be the monarch of the delta.	10
19	219	Had I not defeated it? Had I not, at least, discouraged it? Should it not now, in all propriety, take wing and seek the assuagements of its hunger elsewhere, in the rich feasts offered by the delta.	10
19	319	To be sure, she had seen me only briefly, and in poor light, on one of the small islands of sand in the delta, days ago.	10
19	358	"I was robbed," she said, "and put here by brigands!" "Why did they not sell you at the delta's edge?" I asked.	10
19	392	"True," I said, "if brigands had taken you, they would have bound you hand and foot and taken you to the edge of the delta, there to sell you off as a slave".	10
19	420	Later, rencers, in force, attacked a column of Ar, that on the right flank of her advance into the delta.	10
19	512	"Who am I, a fellow of Port Kar, a stranger in the delta, to dispute their choice?" "They are barbarians!" she said.	10
19	820	The ul, I thought, is not the monarch of the delta.	10
19	821	Man, small man, puny man, with his weapons, is the monarch of the delta.	10
19	854	"But there are many dangers in the delta," she said.	10
19	938	I need male protection! I am only a female! Without your protection I will die in the delta.	10
19	939	Without your protection I can never get out of the delta alive.	10
19	941	I need you desperately!" "Rencer women," I said, "live in the delta".	10
19	947	"What hope," asked she, "would I, naked, a woman of high birth and gentle upbringing, a woman of station, a lady of Ar, have of getting out of the delta alive?" "I do not know," I said.	10
19	955	"I think," I said, "I might myself, without great difficulty, one man, alone, escape from the delta.	10
19	1000	"And," I said, "I may, if I wish, abandon you in the delta".	10
19	1014	"The delta is not a place for the excessively fastidious".	10
19	1071	So simple a device as a raft might increase one's chances of survival in the delta a hundredfold.	10
19	1634	The delta is rich in resources.	10
19	1636	"At this point in the delta," I said, "the water is drinkable".	10
19	1703	Those who have been in the delta will now have no doubt of the treachery to which they have been subjected".	10
19	1735	"Even so I would not entertain too sanguine a hope for deliverance from such a quarter," I said, "as your usefulness to Cos is presumably now at an end, their objective accomplished in the delta".	10
19	1876	"First," I said, "I would like to get out of the delta".	10
20	112	"We cannot have you screaming, and crying out, in the delta," I said.	10
20	159	"But," I said, "you shall for five days, for five encampments, as a punishment for crying out twice, after having been warned to silence, and for not having responded instantly and perfectly to a command, that connected with opening your mouth for the gag wadding, be tied as I often was in the delta...	10
21	117	Such things are now doubtless spread throughout the delta, a bottle for a rencers' feast here, a veil there to strain water, somewhere else a necklace clinking, wrapped several times about the ankle of a fishing rence girl".	10
22	60	It would presumably be otherwise when one reached the edges of the delta.	10
22	61	The delta, on the whole, is sparsely populated.	10
24	82	"It is, at any rate," I said, "not at the same point in the delta where it was before.	10
25	14	Though it is not practical in the delta, such barges, too, could be tied together, and towed.	10
26	48	"They are not common," I said, "even in the delta".	10
27	97	"How have you managed to live in the delta?" he asked.	10
27	115	"We cannot survive in the delta.	10
27	117	"Your greatest danger would be in trying to leave the delta," I said.	10
27	118	"The delta," he said, "has vanquished mighty Ar".	10
27	119	"The delta, like any woman," I said, "is conquerable.	10
27	148	"But perhaps only we here in the delta truly understand what was done to us here".	10
27	174	"If she were to fall into our hands, here in the delta, it would be a court-martial for her".	10
27	188	"We cannot live in the delta," he said, "and we cannot escape it".	10
27	189	"Ar would have done well to have considered such matters before she entered the delta," I said.	10
27	200	Let them perish in the delta then, or at its edges, under the swords of mercenaries, thought I.	10
27	201	It would be difficult enough for a single man to leave the delta, or a man and a woman.	10
27	217	What mattered it if they perished, to a man, in the green wilderness of the delta? "Keep your head down," I told Ina, absently.	10
27	222	It would be difficult enough for one man to escape the delta, or a man willing to accept, say, the handicap of a helpless, beautiful captive, without worrying about more, perhaps even a squad or more.	10
27	224	The odds of being detected, by rencers, by a patrol, by a tarn scout, by a guard at the edge of the delta, by someone, increased considerably with each addition to the party.	10
27	289	"He spoke of a court-martial for you, here in the delta," I said.	10
27	347	Too, this seems fitting, not only because you are a captive, but given the heat in the delta.	10
27	472	"It will make sense to the fellows of Ar that I may have picked up a rence girl in the delta, particularly one as pretty as you are.	10
28	6	Labienus, their captain, whose rank was high captain, and had been commanding officer in the vanguard of the central columns in Ar's entry into the delta, sat upon a rock.	10
28	46	I took a bit of the raw flesh and held it toward the fellow who had expressed his disinclination to believe in the delta's ready provender.	10
28	63	"Do you think you can bring us out of the delta?" asked Labienus, sitting on the rock.	10
28	77	"She perished in the delta," said another.	10
28	85	"She did not perish in the delta," said another.	10
28	126	"That problem," said one of the men, "has already been solved for us, by the delta".	10
28	190	"That is the first step out of the delta," I said.	10
28	192	"The delta," I said, "is rich in the resources of life.	10
28	195	But you wish, I take it, to withdraw from the delta, and, if possible, return to Ar".	10
28	202	"Would it not be simpler to leave you here to perish in the delta?" I asked.	10
28	203	"But perhaps you intend to lead us into an ambush at the delta's edge, and deliver us for bounty gold?" "That is an excellent idea," I said.	10
28	336	I supposed that when she had entered the delta in the purple barge, she, a high lady of Ar, in her silks and jewels, had not expected to serve common soldiers in one of the familiar modalities of a lowly captive.	10
28	418	Saphronicus had probably wanted a simple, trusting, reliable, tenacious, indefatigable officer in that post, one who would continue to doggedly carry his command deeper and deeper into the delta, regardless of what might appear to be the hazards or untenabilities of the situation.	10
28	435	"It is surprising to me," he said, "that rencers are not scouring the delta to recover her".	10
28	492	"Fifty thousand men," said he, looking out over the marsh, "entered the delta".	10
28	510	"Not between Holmesk and the Viktel Aria," he said, grimly, "but in a line between the Vosk and Brundisium, between the delta and Holmesk, to close the path to Holmesk".	10
28	530	I might be decorated, as a veteran of the delta".	10
28	534	"First, I must manage to extricate my men from the delta," he said.	10
28	545	I am a veteran of the delta, leader of the vanguard, one of his finest officers".	10
28	566	"I shall need such things regularly," said Labienus, "at least until we leave the delta".	10
28	575	I hoped that the madness of Labienus would not jeopardize our attempt to withdraw from the delta.	10
29	117	Probably she had girls herself who wore that mark, the serving slaves whom she had not, in order not to tempt the men, brought with her into the delta, the slaves without whose services she, though a free woman, had been subjected to such hardship, being forced to comb her own hair, and such.	10
29	262	Some years ago slavers used to come into the delta to hunt them, almost with impunity.	10
29	328	"Were it not for you," said another, "we would be lost in the delta somewhere, perhaps dead by now".	10
30	5	Trees, generally not common in the marshy delta, were more common now, as we were approaching its southern edge.	10
30	9	As I have mentioned, the arrows, of tem wood, are precious to the rencers, that wood not being indigenous to the delta.	10
30	11	They can then point their own arrows and fletch them themselves, of course, as they are normally fletched with the feathers of the Vosk gull, which is abundant in the delta.	10
30	16	They would assume, I hoped, that fugitives would generally move directly north or south from the point at which the columns were stalled, attempting to free themselves of the dangers of the delta as swiftly as possible.	10
30	20	I guessed we were still some four or five days from the edge of the delta.	10
31	13	To be sure, from the marks upon his face, and the shrubbery with which he had altered his outline, that of the tor shrub, he was not a simple rencer going about his normal round of duties, plying a livelihood in the delta.	10
31	33	Nowadays, with the increasing numbers of female slaves in the delta, a development muchly resented by the free females, though for whatever reason it is hard to imagine, given their claims of superiority to such creatures, many of the men, those lucky enough to own a slave, are less frustrated and d...	10
31	35	Indeed, the delta, as the reader may be aware, or have gathered, was once a popular slaving area.	10
31	36	Most often now, of course, given the dangers of the great bow, these businessmen are less likely to come to the delta to steal women than to bargain for them, usually extra daughters.	10
31	41	Branding irons, usually with the common Kajira design, are now supposedly a trade item in the delta.	10
31	112	"There are few Cosians in the delta," said the lad.	10
31	114	"Too, he knew there was no retreating Cosian force in the delta, and he might well suppose you knew this, as well.	10
31	212	"On behalf of Gnieus Lelius, regent in Ar, and the high council of Ar," said Labienus, "I, as their envoy de facto in the delta, express their regret for the misunderstandings between our states and peoples, and in particular for that resulting in a cruel and unprovoked attack upon an innocent villa...	10
31	233	"They, and their hirelings, infest the edges of the delta".	10
31	374	"There are some slaves in the delta," he said, "here and there, but I have not seen them".	10
31	471	"We need more such as she, only true slaves, in the delta," he said.	10
31	524	To be sure, I did not think it would be easy to track men such as those I was now with in the delta.	10
32	23	It is the edge of the delta!" "Good," said more than one man about, but surely they, as I, knew that the most dangerous part of the journey lay ahead of us.	10
32	25	She seemed quiet now, but I knew that in the delta slave fires had been ignited in her belly.	10
32	29	I would scout out the edge of the delta, at night, trying to find an avenue of escape for myself, for Ina, and the others.	10
32	31	Also, beyond the delta, one would not have the cover of the marsh, the rence.	10
32	32	"Are you eager to leave the delta, my captor," asked Ina, turning to look upon me.	10
32	36	"I do not know if I wish to leave the delta," she said.	10
32	54	"I have business out of the delta," I said.	10
32	56	"And you, too," I said, "should leave the delta.	10
32	63	"I do not know what is to become of me outside of the delta!" "Perhaps you could return to Ar," I said.	10
32	68	We had moved southwest for two days after the visit of the young rencer to our camp, and had then adjusted our trek to the southeast, and then to the south, to reach the point at which I wished to exit from the delta, a point far enough from both Brundisium, on the coast, and Ven, on the south bank ...	10
32	69	Presumably the Cosians would not expect many of Ar to leave the delta in this area, particularly this late in summer.	10
32	70	Too, they would be likely to assume that most of Ar's expeditionary force in the delta would by now have either successfully effected its exit or perished.	10
32	71	I supposed that this late in the summer most Cosian regulars would have been withdrawn from the delta watch.	10
32	73	The young rencer had warned me, however, I recalled, that the edges of the delta were infested by Cosians and their hirelings.	10
32	77	"Out of the delta you may even be permitted clothing, other than, say, a meager pair of slave strips".	10
32	85	"The delta is warm," she said, evasively.	10
32	145	If anything, I would have expected Cosians to be pursuing some poor fugitive from Ar, one trying to escape the delta.	10
32	201	It, attempting to withdraw from the delta, with the 7th, 9th and 14th, had been decimated.	10
32	202	These were probably survivors of that disaster, who had fled back to the delta, and, in effect, to the mercies of rencers.	10
32	235	"We were with the 11th," said Claudius, "which, with its associated columns, was defeated several weeks ago, attempting to exit from the delta.	10
32	297	But now, I think, the fellows of Ar in the delta, if there are any left, are safe from rencers, or, at least, in no more danger than they would be ordinarily, for example, if they were so rash as to pass warning signals, and such".	10
32	321	"We must prepare to leave the delta".	10
33	5	There, in the rence, near the delta's edge, we had found two bodies, half afloat, partly rotted, partly eaten, presumably by small fish and tharlarion.	10
34	44	"A way has now been cleared out of the delta," said Marcus.	10
35	1	Farewells "And what will you do?" I asked Labienus, in the hut of the brigands, near the delta's edge.	10
35	12	Many of them had elected to leave the delta with one or more of our fellows.	10
36	5	"It is one of the major coastal ports south of the delta," I said.	10
36	11	We were dressed much as might be impoverished itinerants, in clothes we had picked up, here and there, in traveling southwest from the delta.	10
36	20	It lay in the direction which would probably be the least dangerous for us, given our desire to escape from the vicinity of the delta.	10
36	21	Surely it would be an unexpected route for fugitives from the delta.	10
40	76	As it had turned out, however, Ar had sent her major forces northward, had failed to relieve the siege at Ar's Station, and then, supposedly pursuing the Cosian expeditionary force in the north, which had destroyed Ar's Station, had come to disaster in the delta.	10
42	21	Had it not been for me you would not have been apprehended by Saphronicus, and taken into the delta.	10
43	5	In this fashion, we hoped that anyone, at least the idly curious, would assume we had broken camp and departed eastward, presumably to make a junction with one of the delta roads.	10
44	46	"I was a member of the crew of the Lady Ina in the delta.	10
44	270	"I was chief officer to her on her barge in the delta".	10
44	333	"How many came out of the delta?" I asked.	10
45	32	She had learned, in our keeping, particularly after leaving the delta, the performance of many domestic services, labors appropriate for females.	10
47	59	"My speculation," I said, "is that Ar demands accountability for the disaster in the delta.	10
48	573	We would move with something of the stealth and secrecy which we had utilized in the delta.	10

Book 25. (79 results) Magicians of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
15	9	This afternoon, on the Avenue of Turia, a cart, putatively carrying the records of the veterans of the delta, supposedly on its way from the house of records to the war office in the Central Cylinder, had been surrounded by a group of youths, crying out against the veterans of the delta, almost as i...	10
15	73	"The fact that Seremides, if I read him aright, set such a trap for the Delta Brigade, supposedly with the delta records, indicates if nothing else that he is quite serious in his suspicions of the delta veterans, and that he may act against them".	10
16	264	"Seremides no doubt links the Delta Brigade with the veterans of the delta, and perhaps on the whole correctly, but he is clever enough to recognize that the popularity of the actions of the Delta Brigade has increased support for the veterans.	10
12	356	If an investigation were initiated, which seemed to me unlikely, as many women were delivered on one pretext or another to the loot pits, and there would not be likely to be much interest in any particular one of them, Marcus and I could always claim that she had come into the power of the Delta Bri...	10
13	227	Was it for this that they had done their duty, was it for this that they had faced the delta, the tracklessness, the tharlarion, the insects, the hunger, the arrows of rencers, the blades of Cos? "Some of these lads, former "Cosians" and others," I said, "are apparently little better, still, than va...	10
15	28	"Many associate the veterans of the delta with the Delta Brigade," I said.	10
15	30	In pretending to move the records, records from which the identities of the delta veterans might be obtained, to a place of safer keeping, he hoped to lure an attack by the Delta Brigade.	10
18	416	"What do you think would happen," I asked, "if the Home Stone of Ar's Station would disappear, from beneath the very noses of the authorities?" "I do not know," he said, "but I suspect it would be thought that the Delta Brigade, the veterans, rescued it, and this might give the lie to the official p...	10
28	85	I thought of the delta of the Vosk, and the disaster which had occurred there, and of the veterans returned from the delta.	10
1	308	The ugliness of the crowd, its hostility, and such, was, I think, a function of recent events, which had precipitated confusion, uncertainty and terror in Ar, in particular the military catastrophe in the delta, in which action, absurdly, the major land forces of Ar had been invested, and the news t...	10
2	67	On the supposition that the latter action took priority the might of Ar in the north entered the delta in pursuit of the Cosians, in which shifting, trackless morass column after column was lost or decimated.	10
2	68	The devastation of Ar's might in the delta was perhaps the greatest military disaster in the planet's history.	10
2	69	Of over fifty thousand men who had entered the delta it was doubted that there were more than four or five thousand survivors.	10
6	66	I have conquered in the delta.	10
6	170	"I was in the delta," he said, and turned away.	10
6	182	I myself could think of at least three, the failure to meet Cos at Torcadino, the failure to relieve the siege at Ar's Station, and the unprepared entry into the delta, in putative pursuit of the Cosian expeditionary force in the north.	10
8	534	"They were not in the delta".	10
10	142	"Ar died in the delta," said Marcus.	10
10	180	"Ar died last summer," he said, "in the delta".	10
10	487	She died in the delta".	10
10	488	"In the delta?" I said.	10
10	489	"In the delta," said Marcus.	10
10	492	"The delta".	10
10	497	"The delta!" "I do not understand," he said.	10
11	64	That is the fourth letter in the Gorean alphabet, and formed identically to the fourth letter of the Greek alphabet, the 'delta', to which letter it doubtless owes its origin.	10
11	65	In Gorean, the delta of a river is referred to as its "delka".	10
11	66	The reasoning here is the same as in Greek, and, derivatively, in English, namely the resemblance of a delta region to a cartographical triangle.	10
11	141	If they are displayed on the street, the power of those of the delta might be too manifestly displayed".	10
11	198	"The Delta Brigade," he said.	10
11	202	"You think this afternoon's attack was the work of this Delta Brigade?" I asked.	10
11	207	"I suspect veterans of the delta campaign," he said, "or scions of disaffected cities, such as Ar's Station".	10
11	215	Marlenus was not, as far as we know, in the delta.	10
11	216	I think it is more likely to be veterans of the delta, of which there are many in the city, or fellows from the north, from Ar's Station or somewhere".	10
11	285	"Surely you do not believe the merchant is involved with the Delta Brigade," I said.	10
11	313	"How many do you think are in the Delta Brigade?" he asked.	10
11	321	"Perhaps then there are ten in the Delta Brigade," I said.	10
11	384	"Surely it would have been better if the bodies had been put outside," said Marcus, "that the strength of the Delta Brigade, as it is spoken of, and the effectiveness of its work, might seem displayed".	10
11	395	"That the bodies were not put outside," said Marcus, "makes it seem as though Cos feared the Delta Brigade, and did not wish that the effectiveness of its work be known, and that is much more to the advantage of the Brigade".	10
11	400	"Thusly increasing the reputation of the Delta Brigade," he said.	10
11	438	"How many are in the Delta Brigade?" I asked him.	10
11	440	"We are the Delta Brigade".	10
11	475	"The Delta Brigade," he asked, "all two of us?" "I think there are more," I said.	10
12	669	"Glory to the Delta Brigade," he whispered.	10
13	32	"To counteract the Delta Brigade," he said.	10
13	216	"And, too, interestingly," he said, "it seems that some of those lads who were "Cosians" now wander about under quite different colors, now affecting beards and hair styles reminiscent of those once associated with veterans, hirsute and shabby, returned from the delta".	10
13	224	But those who said that had perhaps not themselves been in the delta, or even held weapons.	10
13	232	"There is the Delta Brigade," I said.	10
14	439	"To limit the movements of the Delta Brigade," he whispered.	10
14	457	"That is the first public recognition of the Delta Brigade," said a fellow.	10
14	480	"Glory to the Delta Brigade," said a man.	10
14	481	"Who are of the Delta Brigade?" asked a man.	10
14	483	"They must be veterans of the delta campaign," said a man.	10
14	485	"A fellow was asking me where he could join the Delta Brigade," said a man.	10
14	495	"It may be dangerous to try to take in the veterans of the delta," said a man.	10
14	500	"There are warriors and guardsmen in the city," said a man, "who are not veterans of the delta".	10
14	502	Also, of course, it was not only in the delta that blood had been shed.	10
14	701	I found that of interest, as I had known a Plenius in the delta.	10
15	13	In brief, however, these lads, some dozens of them, had surrounded the cart and its guards, screaming out reproaches against the delta veterans, spitting on the records, and such.	10
15	24	"But surely," he said, "the destroyed papers were not the records of the delta veterans".	10
15	59	"Because of the Delta Brigade?" "Of course," I said.	10
15	152	"Plenius," said he, "from the delta".	10
16	2	"Behold! We have captured one of the Delta Brigade!" "One side! One side!" cried his fellow, pushing men back.	10
16	19	"Doubtless that is how the mercenaries recognized him as a member of the Delta Brigade," I said.	10
16	20	"The work of Seremides would be much simpler, to be sure," said Marcus, "if all the fellows in the Delta Brigade would be so obliging".	10
16	23	"Take me from them! Hide me! Glory to the Delta Brigade!" None in the crowd, it seemed, dared echo this sentiment, but there was no mistaking its mood, one of sympathy for the fellow, and of anger toward the mercenaries, and there was a very definite possibility, one thing leading to another, that i...	10
16	61	"There is obviously sympathy for the Delta Brigade".	10
16	125	"We must escape!" "You are of the Delta Brigade!" I inquired.	10
16	129	"Surely you, like myself, are of the Delta Brigade!" he said.	10
16	132	"But perhaps we are not of the Delta Brigade," I said.	10
16	134	"Perhaps we are loyal fellows of Ar," I said, "who, as is presumably appropriate for those of the new Ar, hate the Delta Brigade, and are opposed to it, who see in it a threat to Ar's ignominious surrender, that is, to harmony and peace, who see in it a challenge to the imperious governance of Cos, ...	10
16	139	"I am of the Delta Brigade!" he said.	10
16	161	"Clearly he is of the Delta Brigade," said a man.	10
16	165	I hoped by this last question to lead the crowd to believe that the Delta Brigade was a determined, disciplined, extensive, well-organized force in Ar, one which might realistically inspire hope in the populace and fear in the forces of occupation.	10
16	166	Actually, of course, I had no idea of the nature or extent, or power, or resources, of the Delta Brigade.	10
16	168	At one time Marcus and I thought we were the Delta Brigade.	10
16	170	Then, later, it seemed, there had been acts performed in the name of the Delta Brigade, sabotage, and such, in which we had had no part.	10
16	173	It could have been done by a small group of men, presumably mostly veterans of the delta, interested in making it difficult for Cos to trace their identities.	10
16	174	"Were you in the delta?" I asked.	10
16	194	"You were with the 14th then when it was defeated in the northern tracts of the delta?" "Yes," he said.	10

Book 26. (1 results) Witness of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
46	39	The underground in Ar, you see, the resistance to the occupation, in particular, a band of brigands, the Delta Brigade, mostly veterans of the campaign in the delta of the Vosk, must not locate him.	10

Book 27. (1 results) Prize of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
19	415	"It is an organization," said Portus, "formed largely, but not entirely, from veterans of the great disaster of the Vosk delta, where they were betrayed by treason in high places, denied supplies, abandoned, left to die, who muchly suffered in their retreat from the delta, and found themselves despi...	10

Book 29. (1 results) Swordsmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
5	501	The core of the Delta Brigade was surmised to be composed of veterans returned from the misdirected and ill-fated campaign in the Vosk's delta, and thus the term "Delta Brigade".	10

Book 30. (4 results) Mariners of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	354	Some of these veterans of the delta campaign, now embittered, realizing how they had been betrayed, and dismayed at the Ar to which they had returned, formed the nucleus of a resistance, the "Delta Brigade," the natural symbol of which was the letter "Delka," scribbled or scratched secretly, in bold...	10
1	346	Informed that the invasion force had withdrawn into the delta, the forces of Ar, under the orders of conspirators, entered the extensive, treacherous wastes and swamps of the vast delta in pursuit.	10
1	350	The enemy they encountered, of course, was not the expected foe, but the delta itself, with its insects, heat, humidity, uncertain footing, quicksand, tharlarion, and rencers, denizens of the delta, almost invisible, subtle in warfare, masters of the bow and ambush.	10
3	250	Only later were we to reconstruct what had occurred, the pockets of our resistance, overcome one by one, the decimated retreats, the slaughterings, the terror, the blood, the hunting of traitors and collaborators, the joining of the forces of Ar, maintained during the occupation, to the uprising, th...	10

Book 31. (2 results) Conspirators of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
31	21	She had been a free woman of Cos, captured at sea by a corsair from Port Kar, as had been the girl from Tabor with whom I had been sold in the Metellan district, though much farther from shore, had been sold to rencers in the delta of the Vosk, who had sold her at a profit to a camp of slavers at th...	10
31	26	Poling in the trackless delta, the rope on their neck, they are well aware of the wilderness, the vastness, the treacherous byways, the quicksand, the heat, the insects, leeches, delta sharks, winged, predatory uls, and, in particular, marsh tharlarion, which often scout the boats, and accompany the...	10

Book 35. (9 results) Quarry of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
15	169	Tharlarion races in Venna were underway, Centius of Cos, guaranteed safe conduct, had won the kaissa garland in the Argentum competitions; an attempt to elevate and standardize cargo fees on the Vosk had failed; the migration of four-gilled parsit fish had begun; Rencers had raised the shelter price...	10
17	1	The Delta Gate; The Delta Market; I am Surprised; I Will Crave an Audience with my Master, Ho-Tosk Port Kar is interlaced with canals, and, as one would expect, much traffic utilizes the canals, particularly in small boats.	10
17	16	I recalled reports I had heard in the tavern of an alleged monster sighted some weeks ago in the delta, something similar, save for a greater size and a silverish color, to the leatherish, black, snakelike "long tharlarion," with which the delta teems.	10
17	64	The Delta Market is near the Delta Gate.	10
17	66	Almost all local trading, fish, feathers of the Vosk Gull, favored for fletching, rence, and such, metalware, cloth and leather goods, ka-la-na wood for bows, wines and paga, and such, between the delta and Port Kar takes place in the Delta Market.	10
24	161	It would not do would it, to have you cry out, being borne away, or scream on the delta wall, before being cast down to tharlarion? What if you were to cry out secrets, or deeds, or mysteries, which are no concern of guardsmen? What if you were found on the delta wall, in the darkness, bound and gag...	10
26	63	"I think this is a good place, not too close to the Delta Gate, not too far from the Delta Gate, a likely place for observation, inspection, and greeting, a sheltered place, walled by rence, yet wide and placid, a courtyard in the marshes.	10
33	6	That afternoon, Bruno of Torcadino, at the market quay inside and near the Delta Gate, the Delta Market, had purchased a rence craft.	10
43	45	Another canal boat slipped past us, presumably on its way toward the delta wall, perhaps even to the delta-gate market.	10