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Book 4. (454 results) Nomads of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	4	The herds would circle Turia, for this was the portion of the Omen Year called the Passing of Turia, in which the Wagon Peoples gather and begin to move toward their winter pastures; the second portion of the Omen Year is the Wintering, which takes place far north of Turia, the equator being approac...	10
2	72	In the thinking of the Wagon Peoples it is called the Omen Year, though the Omen Year is actually a season, rather than a year, which occupies a part of two of their regular years, for the Wagon Peoples calculate the year from the Season of Snows to the Season of Snows; Turians, incidentally, figure...	10
26	157	On the floor below the dais were Saphrar of Turia, frantic, clutching the purple-wrapped object, and the Paravaci, he who still wore the hood of the Clan of Torturers, he who would have been my assassin, he who had been with Saphrar of Turia when I had entered the Yellow Pool of Turia.	10
1	14	"Run, you fool! Run for the gates of Turia!" Turia the high-walled, the nine-gated, was the Gorean city lying in the midst of the huge prairies claimed by the Wagon Peoples.	10
9	1	Aphris of Turia There was little doubt that I, in the worn, red tunic of a warrior, and Kamchak, in the black leather of the Tuchuks, seemed somewhat out of place at the banquet of Saphrar, merchant of Turia.	10
9	174	The father of Aphris of Turia, Tethrar of Turia, had been the richest merchant in this city, itself one of the richest cities of Gor.	10
9	300	"Did you truly think," asked Aphris of Turia arrogantly, "that a Tuchuk would be permitted to look upon the face of a free woman of Turia?" Kamchak's fists were clenched on the table, for no Tuchuk likes to be fooled.	10
9	416	There was a firm snap of the heavy lock in the back of the collar and the throat of Aphris of Turia had been encircled with slave steel! At the same instant Kamchak lifted her startled to her feet and turned her to face him, with both hands tearing the veil from her face! Then, before any of the sta...	10
9	480	Thus, if Aphris of Turia, by some mischance, were to fall to Kamchak, and surely slavery, her considerable riches would be immediately assigned to Saphrar, merchant of Turia.	10
10	273	I wondered how many of the proud beauties of Turia would this night tearfully serve barbarian masters; and how many of the wild, leather-clad girls of the Wagons, like Hereena, would find themselves this night naught but bangled, silken slaves locked behind the high walls of distant, lofty Turia.	10
10	574	"Slay him!" howled Aphris of Turia! For perhaps better than fifteen minutes, patiently, not hurrying, Kamchak of the Tuchuks shuffled after Kamras of Turia, touching him once more and ever again, each time leaving a quick, bright stain of blood on his tunic or body.	10
15	4	There had been Kassars who had wanted to fight and some Kataii, but the calm heads of the Paravaci had convinced them that the difficulty lay between Turia and the Tuchuks, not Turia and the Wagon Peoples generally.	10
15	9	The mercenary tarnsmen of Turia were most feared by the Tuchuks, for such could, with relative impunity, fire upon them from the safety of their soaring height, but even this dread weapon of Turia could not, by itself, drive the Tuchuks from the surrounding plains.	10
15	40	* * * * I knew that I myself must somehow enter Turia, for in Turia now lay the golden sphere.	10
17	1	The Yellow Pool of Turia At the edge of the Yellow Pool of Turia Harold and I stood, now freed of the slave bar, but with wrists tied behind our backs.	10
21	1	Kamchak Enters Turia I had now been in the city of Turia some four days, having returned on foot in the guise of a peddler of small jewels.	10
21	49	As I hobbled through the city of Turia, one eye half shut, staring at the street as though I hoped to find a lost copper tarn disk among the stones, I made my way toward the compound of Saphrar of Turia.	10
21	114	At one time, I gathered from Dina, her father's shop had been the most famed of the baking shops of Turia, most of which are owned by Saphrar of Turia, whose interests range widely, though operated naturally, as Gorean custom would require, by members of the Caste of Bakers.	10
21	180	She knew as well as I that the guards were still questioning those who would depart from Turia, but she knew too, as I, that each day, each hour, I remained in Turia counted against me.	10
21	212	But how it must have hurt him—he, Kamchak—to turn the wagons and withdraw from Turia, leaving Kutaituchik unavenged and Saphrar of Turia triumphant.	10
21	214	I would rather have expected Kamchak to have stood before the walls of Turia, his kaiila saddled, his arrows at hand, until the winds and snows had at last driven him, the Tuchuks, the wagons and the bosk away from the gates of the beleaguered city, the nine-gated, high-walled stronghold of Turia, i...	10
21	252	And Dina of Turia ran down the walkway, along the rim of the high wall of Turia.	10
26	112	"Kamchak of the Tuchuks, whose father Kutaituchik was slain by Saphrar of Turia, calls upon Saphrar of Turia".	10
27	16	As a matter of course various goods and riches were heaped about his throne, and among them, as part of the booty, there knelt some of the most beautiful of Turia's maidens, clad only in the Sirik, but at his right knee, unchained and clad Kajir, there knelt Aphris of Turia.	10
27	221	"This woman," said Kamchak of the Tuchuks, brusquely, his voice stern but almost breaking, "is called Aphris—know her—she is Ubara of the Tuchuks, she is Ubara Sana, of my heart Ubara Sana!" We let Kamchak and Aphris ride ahead, and followed them, by some hundred yards, toward the main...	10
1	1	The Plains of Turia "Run!" cried the woman.	10
1	24	I had left the vicinity of the Sardar Range in the month of Se'Var, which in the northern hemisphere is a winter month, and had journeyed south for months; and had now come to what some call the Plains of Turia, others the Land of the Wagon Peoples, in the autumn of this hemisphere; there is, due ap...	10
1	31	From the Sardar I had gone largely Cart, sometimes Vask, then Cart again until I had come to the Plains of Turia, or the Land of the Wagon Peoples.	10
1	35	The caravan, of course, was bound for Turia.	10
1	37	I left the caravan before it reached Turia.	10
1	38	My business was with the Wagon Peoples, not the Turians, said to be indolent and luxury-loving; but I wonder at this charge, for Turia has stood for generations on the plains claimed by the fierce Wagon Peoples.	10
1	39	For some minutes I stood silently observing the animals and the men who pressed toward Turia, invisible over the brown horizon.	10
1	41	Even the autumn grass itself bent and shook in brown tides toward Turia, shimmering in the sun like a tawny surf beneath the fleeing clouds above; it was as though the unseen wind itself, frantic volumes and motions of simple air, too desired its sanctuary behind the high walls of the far city.	10
2	39	I was afoot, on the treeless southern plains of Gor, on the Plains of Turia, in the Land of the Wagon Peoples.	10
2	55	But now I could hear, carried on the wind blowing toward distant Turia, the bellowing of the bosks.	10
2	73	It is near Turia, in the spring, that the Omen Year is completed, when the omens are taken, usually over several days by hundreds of haruspexes, mostly readers of bosk blood and verr livers, to determine if they are favorable for a choosing of a Ubar San, a One Ubar, a Ubar who would be High Ubar, a...	10
2	90	It would not, of course, be to the benefit of Turia, or the farther cities, or, indeed, any of the free cities of even northern Gor, if the isolated fierce peoples of the south were to join behind a single standard and turn their herds northward—away from their dry plains to the lusher reache...	10
2	174	The effect of the scars, ugly, startling, terrible, perhaps in part calculated to terrify enemies, had even prompted me, for a wild moment, to conjecture that what I faced on the Plains of Turia were not men, but perhaps aliens of some sort, brought to Gor long ago from remote worlds to serve some n...	10
3	89	"It will buy ten bosks," said he, "twenty wagons covered with golden cloth, a hundred she-slaves from Turia".	10
6	2	Many others, too, rushed to the sound, and we were jostled by armed warriors, scarred and fierce; by boys with unscarred faces, carrying the pointed sticks used often for goading the wagon bosk; by leather-clad women hurrying from the cooking pots; by wild, half-clothed children; even by enslaved Ka...	10
7	146	This was news to me, and I welcomed it, for it meant that probably, somehow, the answer to at least a part of the mystery which confronted me lay in the city of Turia.	10
7	213	The answer possibly lay in Turia.	10
7	253	Perhaps in that moment Elizabeth Cardwell recalled the strange man, so fearsome, gray of face with eyes like glass, who had so examined her on Earth, before whom she had stood as though on a block, unknowingly being examined for her fitness to bear the message collar of Turia.	10
8	2	I had hoped to go to Turia, there to seek the answer to the mystery of the message collar, but it was not to be, at least until the spring.	10
8	6	I did manage, however, from the back of the kaiila, which I learned to ride, to catch a glimpse of distant, high-walled, nine-gated Turia.	10
8	9	"In the spring there will be the games of Love War and I will go to Turia, and you may then, if you wish, accompany me".	10
8	15	My main interests, my primary objective, surely lay not in distant Turia, but with the wagons.	10
8	29	How was it, I wondered, that Kamchak was going to Turia in the spring? I sensed him to be a man of importance with the wagons.	10
8	31	I had learned, to my surprise, that trade did occasionally take place with Turia.	10
8	33	The Wagon Peoples, though enemies of Turia, needed and wanted her goods, in particular materials of metal and cloth, which are highly prized among the Wagons.	10
8	36	The Turians also, I note, receive other goods from the Wagon Peoples, who tend to be fond of the raid, goods looted from caravans perhaps a thousand pasangs from the herds, indeed some of them even on the way to and from Turia itself.	10
8	39	It might be added that there are two items which the Wagon Peoples will not sell or trade to Turia, one is a living bosk and the other is a girl from the city itself, though the latter are sometimes, for the sport of the young men, allowed, as it is said, to run for the city.	10
8	45	At last, seventeen days after the first snows, the edges of the herds began to reach their winter pastures far north of Turia, approaching the equator from the south.	10
8	166	"It is Aphris of Turia I want," he said.	10
8	447	She is Dina of Turia".	10
8	458	Little did we know that one of those girls was Dina of Turia, who, of course, would run not for the skilled Kamchak, but for his awkward friend, the clumsy Tarl Cabot, not even of the Wagon Peoples, new to the kaiila and bola! Conrad and Albrecht had perhaps even come to the camp of the Tuchuks with...	10
8	476	Surely she had not miscounted, not Dina of Turia.	10
8	505	I looked down at Dina of Turia.	10
8	522	I then took Dina of Turia in my arms and, at some length, and with a certain admitted satisfaction, collected my winnings.	10
8	610	It was with a kind of shock that I suddenly realized that she, and Dina of Turia, now belonged to Kamchak and myself.	10
8	615	I saw Dina of Turia look at me.	10
8	627	"Tomorrow the herds will move toward Turia".	10
8	630	There would now be the third phase of the Omen Year, the Return to Turia.	10
8	632	"I will take you to Turia," said Kamchak.	10
9	3	It was somewhat surprising to me that Kamchak and I, being in our way ambassadors of the Wagon Peoples, were entertained in the house of Saphrar, the merchant, rather than in the palace of Phanius Turmus, Administrator of Turia.	10
9	6	The official reason, proclaimed by Phanius Turmus, the Administrator, and others high in the government, was that those of the Wagon Peoples were unworthy to be entertained in the administrative palace; the real reason, apparently seldom proclaimed by anyone, was that the true power in Turia lay act...	10
9	8	His presence at the banquet was felt in the person of his plenipotentiary, Kamras, of the Caste of Warriors, a captain, said to be Champion of Turia.	10
9	9	I shot the spiced vulo brain into my mouth on the tip of a golden eating prong, a utensil, as far as I knew, unique to Turia.	10
9	11	I did not much care for the sweet, syrupy wines of Turia, flavored and sugared to the point where one could almost leave one's fingerprint on their surface.	10
9	27	"How is it," I asked, "that here in Turia you can serve the livers of wingfish?" "I have a war galley in Port Kar," said Saphrar the merchant, "which I send to Cos twice a year for the fish".	10
9	37	"How is it," I asked, "that a merchant of Turia has a war galley in Port Kar?" Saphrar reclined on the yellow cushions, behind the low table covered with wines, fruits and golden dishes heaped with delicate viands.	10
9	48	Saphrar conveyed my wishes to the scandalized Feast Steward, and he, with a glare in my direction, sent two young slaves scampering off to scour the kitchens of Turia for a slice of bosk meat.	10
9	53	"Do not object that we are entertained in the house of Saphrar of the Merchants," Kamchak had said, "for in Turia power lies with such men".	10
9	54	I looked down the table a bit at Kamras, plenipotentiary of Phanius Turmus, Administrator of Turia.	10
9	58	He was said to be a great warrior, indeed, to be champion of Turia.	10
9	69	This afternoon Kamchak and I, leading four pack kaiila, had entered the first gate of nine-gated Turia.	10
9	76	I was very pleased to enter Turia, for I have always been excited by a new city.	10
9	77	I found Turia to match my expectations.	10
9	85	I suppose that life in high-walled Turia, for most of its citizens, went on from day to day in its usual patterns oblivious of the usually distant Wagon Peoples.	10
9	89	One disappointment to me in trekking through the streets of Turia was that a crier advanced before us, calling to the women of the city to conceal themselves, even the female slaves.	10
9	90	Thus, unfortunately, save for an occasional furtive pair of dark eyes peering from behind a veil in a recessed casement, we saw in our journey from the gate of the city to the House of Saphrar none of the fabled, silken beauties of Turia.	10
9	93	Among the Wagons, clad in a brief bit of cord and leather, branded, wearing nose ring and Turian collar, could be found many of the beauties of Turia.	10
9	100	Suddenly I became aware again of the banquet of Saphrar of Turia.	10
9	120	If there had been no women for us to view in the streets of Turia, Saphrar, merchant of the city, had determined to make that omission good at his banquet.	10
9	160	The Feast Steward's voice was heard, "The Lady Aphris of Turia".	10
9	162	Down the stairway, slowly, in trailing white silk bordered with gold, the colors of the Merchants, there regally descended the girl who was Aphris of Turia.	10
9	165	Aphris of Turia, then, was of the Caste of Merchants.	10
9	169	"The richest woman in all Turia," Kamchak said.	10
9	175	There had been no surviving male heir and the considerable wealth of Tethrar of Turia was now that of his daughter, Aphris, who would assume control of these remarkable fortunes upon attaining her majority, which event was to occur this spring.	10
9	189	"I must think on the matter," Kamchak was saying, not taking his eyes from Aphris of Turia.	10
9	200	Kamchak was still watching Aphris of Turia.	10
9	204	I barely noticed, as Aphris of Turia made her way toward the head of the table, that she did not speak to nor acknowledge in any way any of the women present, though their robes suggested they must be of wealth and position.	10
9	210	"The golden sphere for Aphris of Turia," Saphrar whispered to Kamchak.	10
9	213	"Very well," snapped Saphrar, "then you will not obtain the woman—I shall see to that—and somehow I shall have the sphere—understand that!" Kamchak now turned to watch Aphris of Turia.	10
9	215	"Honored Aphris of Turia, whom I love as my own daughter," he said.	10
9	233	Aphris of Turia, pleased with herself, assumed her place between the merchant and Kamchak, kneeling back on her heels in the position of the Gorean free woman.	10
9	248	Kamras, Champion of the City of Turia, rose to his feet.	10
9	253	"The Tuchuk and his friend are guests, and ambassadors of the Wagon Peoples—they must not come to harm!" Aphris of Turia laughed merrily and Kamras, embarrassed, returned to his seat.	10
9	279	I gathered he did not understand its true value, seeing that he had apparently discussed its exchange with some seriousness earlier in the evening—only that, apparently, he wanted more than Saphrar was offering, even though that might be Aphris of Turia herself.	10
9	282	"Are the women of Turia not beautiful?" she asked.	10
9	289	"It is well known," he said, "the women of Turia are shameless".	10
9	290	"I think not," snapped the angry Aphris of Turia, her eyes flashing above the golden border of her white silken veil.	10
9	325	"Ho!" cried Aphris of Turia, summoning the Feast Steward to her, through the turning bodies of the girls dancing among the tables.	10
9	331	Aphris of Turia was bold indeed.	10
9	345	"I wish to see them perform," said Aphris of Turia, though she stood within an arm's reach of Kamchak's quiva.	10
9	361	At the height of one of her dances, called the Dance of the Tuchuk Slave Girl, Kamchak turned to Aphris of Turia, who was watching the dance, eyes bright, as astounded as I at the savage spectacle.	10
9	363	The back and head of Aphris of Turia were rigid with fury, but she gave no sign that she had heard him.	10
9	367	"What is in the box?" asked Aphris of Turia, as she saw Kamchak pick up the small black box which, throughout the banquet, he had kept at his right knee.	10
9	370	I remembered that two years before, as I had learned, he had brought Aphris of Turia a five-string diamond necklace, which she had scorned, and had, according to her report at least, given to a slave.	10
9	383	"Is it other," she asked, "than a mere necklace of diamonds?" Aphris of Turia was no fool.	10
9	396	"I want it," said Aphris of Turia.	10
9	400	Kamras, the Champion of Turia, half rose from his position.	10
9	402	"Very well," said Aphris of Turia.	10
9	404	So then Kamchak bent down to where Aphris of Turia knelt, her back straight, her head very high, before the low table.	10
9	412	"Now!" said Aphris of Turia, trembling with anticipation.	10
9	425	"Remove the collar immediately," commanded Kamras, plenipotentiary of Phanius Turmus, Administrator of Turia.	10
9	431	"Slay him!" screamed Aphris of Turia, "Slay him!" "Replace your veil," repeated Saphrar to the girl.	10
9	435	I was pleased, though I would not have admitted it, at Kamchak's boldness, for it was a face for which a man might risk much, even death in the torture dungeons of Turia, utterly beautiful though now, of course, transformed with rage, far more beautiful than had been that of the most beautiful of th...	10
9	439	"A joke! A Tuchuk joke!" "Slay him!" screamed Aphris of Turia.	10
9	445	For an instant I saw Kamchak's eyes gleam and thought he might at the very table at which he stood accept the challenge of the Champion of Turia, but instead, he shrugged and grinned.	10
9	454	"Aphris of Turia!" cried the girl.	10
9	456	"Yes!" cried Aphris of Turia.	10
9	457	"If you will meet Kamras, Champion of Turia, I—Aphris of Turia—will stand at the stake in Love War!" Kamchak looked at her.	10
9	463	Kamchak had, by means of the very pride of Aphris of Turia, of Kamras, and the offended Turians, brought the girl by her own will to the stake of Love War.	10
9	465	I supposed, naturally, however, that Saphrar, guardian of Aphris of Turia, would not permit this to occur.	10
9	482	"All right," said Saphrar, his eyes cast down, as though making a decision against his better judgment, "I will permit my ward, the Lady Aphris of Turia, to stand at the stake in Love War".	10
9	483	There was a cry of delight from the crowd, confident now that the Tuchuk sleen would be fittingly punished for his bold use of the richest daughter of Turia.	10
9	484	"Thank you, my guardian," said Aphris of Turia, and with one last vicious look at Kamchak threw back her head and with a swirl of her white gown, bordered with gold, walked regally from between the tables.	10
9	492	"Have no fear, Saphrar of Turia," Kamras was saying, "I shall slay the Tuchuk sleen—and I shall do so slowly".	10
10	1	Love War It was early in the morning, several days after Saphrar's banquet, that Kamchak and myself, among some hundreds of others of the Four Wagon Peoples, came to the Plains of a Thousand Stakes, some pasangs distant from lofty Turia.	10
10	4	The journey, even so, was not without its dangers, but they had been well recompensed, from the treasure chests of both Turia and the Wagon Peoples.	10
10	19	Dina, though she was slave, I had placed on the saddle before me, her legs over the left forequarters of the animal, and had ridden with her from the wagons, until in the distance I could see the gleaming, white walls of Turia.	10
10	24	"It is Turia," I said, "your city".	10
10	26	"Is it your wish," she asked, "that I run for the city?" She referred to a cruel sport of the young men of the wagons who sometimes take Turian slave girls to the sight of Turia's walls and then, loosening bola and thong, bid them run for the city.	10
10	55	"No," I said, "Dina of Turia.	10
10	62	"You, Dina of Turia," I said, "are free".	10
10	69	And indeed it was a free woman who cried those words, Dina, a free woman of Turia.	10
10	77	"Ah, Tarl Cabot," she chided, "there is all the Plains of Turia".	10
10	80	"No," she said, "the Plains of Turia".	10
10	90	"I cannot go to Turia!" she cried.	10
10	93	I cried out in exasperation, kissed her, turned her about by the shoulders and with a slap, hardly befitting a free woman, started her on the way to Turia.	10
10	104	I recalled the Plains of Turia.	10
10	125	Kamchak! Free a slave! And, I told myself, even if I myself owned Elizabeth, and not Kamchak, I could not free her—for what would it be to free her? If she approached Turia she would fall slave to the first patrol that leashed and hooded her; if she tried to stay among the wagons, some young ...	10
10	130	No, it was best that Elizabeth Cardwell believe I had callously sold the lovely Dina of Turia.	10
10	150	Once outside, to my astonishment, he turned to me and said, "You were a fool to free Dina of Turia".	10
10	152	"I saw you put her on your kaiila and ride toward Turia," he said.	10
10	161	"A girl such as Dina of Turia is worth more than a kaiila," he said.	10
10	184	I gathered Kamchak had his mind on Aphris of Turia, and was, perilously to my mind, counting his wenches before he had won them.	10
10	196	I heard some musicians, come out early from Turia, playing a light tune behind the Turian stakes, about fifty yards or so away.	10
10	199	Moving boldly now among the Wagon Peoples were vendors from Turia, selling their cakes, their wines and meats, even chains and collars.	10
10	202	From the back of the kaiila I could now see dust from Turia.	10
10	215	On long lines of tharlarion I could see warriors of Turia approaching in procession the Plains of a Thousand Stakes.	10
10	218	Beside the tharlarion walked other men-at-arms, and even citizens of Turia, and more vendors and musicians, come to see the games.	10
10	219	On the heights of distant Turia itself I could see the flutter of flags and pennons.	10
10	221	The warriors of Turia extended their formation about two hundred yards from the stakes until in ranks of four or five deep they were strung out in a line as long as the line of stakes itself.	10
10	274	One by one the screened palanquins of the damsels of Turia were placed on the grass and a serving slave placed before each a silken mat that the inmate of the palanquin, in stepping from her seclusion, might not soil the toe or heel of her sandal or slipper.	10
10	276	One by one, clad in the proud arrays of resplendent silks, each in the Robes of Concealment, the damsels of Turia, veiled and straight-standing, emerged from their palanquins, scarcely concealing their distaste for the noise and clamor about them.	10
10	280	A girl might propose herself to stand, as had Aphris of Turia, but this would not guarantee that she would be chosen, for the criteria of Love War are exacting and, as much as possible, objectively applied.	10
10	282	I heard a judge call, "First Stake! Aphris of Turia!" "Hah!" yelled Kamchak, slapping me on the back, nearly knocking me from the back of my kaiila.	10
10	285	This meant that she was quite possibly the most beautiful woman in Turia, certainly at least among those in the games this year.	10
10	286	In her silks of white and gold, on cloths thrown before her, Aphris of Turia stepped disdainfully forward, guided by a judge, to the first of the stakes on the side of the Wagon Peoples.	10
10	287	The girls of the Wagon Peoples, on the other hand, would stand at the stakes nearest Turia.	10
10	291	The judges were now calling names, and girls, both of the Wagon Peoples and of Turia, were coming forward.	10
10	297	The selection of the girls, incidentally, is determined by judges in their city, or of their own people, in Turia by members of the Caste of Physicians who have served in the great slave houses of Ar; among the wagons by the masters of the public slave wagons, who buy, sell and rent girls, providing...	10
10	304	The girls of the Wagon Peoples stood proudly before their stakes, certain that their champions, whoever they were to be, would be victorious and return them to their peoples; the girls of the city of Turia stood also at their stakes, but with feigned indifference.	10
10	310	I smiled to myself, wondering if Aphris of Turia, standing so loftily at the first stake, wore beneath the robes of white and gold the camisk of a slave girl.	10
10	326	"How pleased I shall be," hissed the girl, "to see you on your knees in the sand begging Kamras of Turia to finish you!" "Tonight, little Aphris," said Kamchak, "as I promised you, you shall spend your first night in the dung sack".	10
10	333	Aphris of Turia, at the request of one of the minor judges, irritably removed her gloves, of silk-lined white verrskin, trimmed with gold, and placed them in a deep fold of her robes.	10
10	355	"I would like to take a look at this one," Kamchak was saying, jerking a thumb in the direction of Aphris of Turia.	10
10	357	"Can you not remember, Sleen," asked the girl, "the face of Aphris of Turia?" "My memory is vague," said Kamchak.	10
10	360	Aphris of Turia was an incredibly beautiful woman.	10
10	369	I suddenly glimpsed the face of Aphris of Turia contort with rage and she tried to free herself.	10
10	374	But already several of the other warriors of the Wagon Peoples were inspecting the unveiled Aphris of Turia.	10
10	387	It seemed then Aphris of Turia leaned back for an instant in exhausted relief against the stake.	10
10	398	"No," said the judge, "it is because she is defended by Kamras, Champion of Turia".	10
10	405	It would indeed be unpleasant if one suddenly, unexpectedly, found oneself facing a superb, famed warrior, say, a Kamras of Turia.	10
10	408	I could see that the Kassar girl, a beauty, at the stake opposite Aphris of Turia was distressed, and understandably so.	10
10	409	It appeared she was to depart for Turia without so much as a handful of sand kicked about on her behalf.	10
10	422	"Is she not beautiful? Do you not want her?" Kamchak looked at Aphris of Turia.	10
10	424	"Fight for me!" cried Aphris of Turia.	10
10	428	"You are a fool," said Kamras of Turia.	10
10	442	At this word the judge called out to clear the space between the stakes of Aphris of Turia and the lovely Kassar wench.	10
10	463	"But how would I, a poor Tuchuk," Kamchak was moaning, "know anything of the sword?" "Then withdraw," said Kamras, loftily, "and I will take this Kassar wench slave to Turia".	10
10	466	"You see," he said, "I am Champion of Turia and I have no particular wish to stain my blade with the blood of an urt".	10
10	470	"Fight him, filthy Tuchuk!" screamed Aphris of Turia, pulling against the retaining rings.	10
10	471	"Do not be uneasy, gentle Aphris of Turia," said Kamras.	10
10	478	Kamras was regarding Aphris of Turia.	10
10	488	Aphris of Turia cried out in rage and the Kassar wench in distress.	10
10	499	Kamras looked at Aphris of Turia, dumbfounded.	10
10	501	"He is mad," said Kamras of Turia.	10
10	512	"A thousand cuts!" cried the gentle Aphris of Turia.	10
10	556	"Slay him!" screamed Aphris of Turia.	10
10	563	It was only about this time that it dawned on me that for three or four minutes Kamchak had been the object of the ever-more-furious assault of Turia's champion and was, to this instant, unscratched.	10
10	572	"Kill him!" Aphris of Turia was screaming.	10
10	575	And then, to my astonishment, and that of the throng who had gathered to witness the contest, I saw Kamras, Champion of Turia, weak from the loss of blood, fall to his knees before Kamchak of the Tuchuks.	10
10	588	Then he turned and advanced to the stake of Aphris of Turia, who stood there, her wrists bound in steel, regarding him, speechless with horror.	10
11	1	Bells and Collar Kamchak regarded Aphris of Turia.	10
11	3	"Please, no!" And in a moment the lovely Aphris of Turia stood at the stake revealed to the eyes of her master.	10
11	14	Kamchak suddenly cuffed Aphris of Turia.	10
11	36	"Aphris of Turia," he said, "has a surprise coming".	10
11	38	"I am the richest woman in all Turia," she said.	10
11	48	"It is—or was—true that you were the richest woman in all Turia," Saphrar was saying, "but your riches are not yours to manage—but mine—not, that is, until you would have reached your majority, some days from now I believe".	10
11	56	"I am the richest woman in Turia!" she cried.	10
11	61	Aphris of Turia threw back her head and screamed.	10
11	67	"I think," roared Kamchak, "I will call her Aphris of Turia!" "Free me, Saphrar," cried the girl piteously, "free me!" Saphrar laughed.	10
11	69	"You stinking sleen!" "Be careful," warned Saphrar, "how you speak to the richest man in Turia!" Aphris wept and pulled at the retaining rings.	10
11	83	"I do not speak to slaves," said he, and the merchant, on the palanquin, moved away toward the walls of distant Turia.	10
11	88	"No," said Kamchak, taking her hair and giving her head a friendly shake, "I would not have sold you for all the gold in Turia".	10
11	93	"And it is for that reason," said Kamchak, "that I would not sell you for all the gold of Turia".	10
11	99	In short order then Kamchak took the key over the head of Aphris of Turia and sprang open the retaining rings.	10
11	102	"Your name is Aphris of Turia," he said to her, giving her a name.	10
11	103	"My name is Aphris of Turia," she said, accepting her name at his hands.	10
11	105	Trembling Aphris of Turia, kneeling, lowered her head and extended her arms, wrists crossed.	10
11	128	I supposed that Aphris of Turia had done little in her life that was more strenuous than stepping in and out of a scented bath.	10
11	155	This struck fire in Aphris of Turia.	10
11	157	"Not I—not Aphris of Turia!" "You," said Kamchak.	10
11	160	"Yes," roared Kamchak, throwing back his head and guffawing, "Aphris of Turia, in my wagon, will be a barbarian's serving slave!" The girl's fists were clenched.	10
11	161	"And I shall see," said Kamchak, "that word of this reaches Turia!" He then bent over and started cracking his knees with his fists, so amused he was.	10
11	162	Aphris of Turia trembled with rage before him.	10
11	165	Aphris of Turia shrugged away her touch arrogantly, not wishing to feel her hand.	10
11	202	"They are both stinking drunk," said Aphris of Turia.	10
11	211	Aphris of Turia appeared in even worse shape.	10
11	292	"I shall escape at the first opportunity and return to Turia".	10
11	296	"It is true," I warned Aphris of Turia.	10
11	311	"Certainly," she said and the proud Aphris of Turia, kneeling, bent forward, to eat the meat held in the hand of her master.	10
11	339	He faced Aphris of Turia.	10
11	355	Aphris of Turia did so, defeated, kneeling before him and turning her head delicately to take the meat from his hand.	10
11	362	"I think," I said, "that you have won this night but I warn you that the girl from Turia will think again of the quiva and the heart of a Tuchuk warrior".	10
11	382	"You have made me your slave," she said, "but I am still Aphris of Turia.	10
11	383	You may, Tuchuk, slay Aphris of Turia if it pleases you, but know that she will never serve your pleasure—never".	10
11	385	"Never," said Aphris of Turia.	10
11	407	And then I saw the lovely Aphris of Turia pitched head first into the large, leather sack, screaming and sputtering, thrashing about.	10
12	11	It was possible, of course, that I might declare my mission to Kutaituchik or Kamchak, and see what would occur—but I knew that Kamchak had said to Saphrar of Turia that the Tuchuks were fond of the golden sphere—and I had no hopes that I might make them part with it—and surely ...	10
12	15	In Turia I had learned nothing, unfortunately, of the answers to the mystery of the message collar—or to the appearance of Miss Elizabeth Cardwell on the southern plains of Gor.	10
12	16	I had, however, inadvertently, learned the location of the golden sphere, and that Saphrar, a man of power in Turia, was also interested in obtaining it.	10
12	20	How was it that he, a merchant of Turia, knew of the golden sphere? How was it that he, a man of shrewdness and intelligence, seemed willing to barter volumes of gold for what he termed merely a curiosity? There seemed to be something here at odds with the rational avarice of mercantile calculation,...	10
12	21	Yet I knew that whatever Saphrar, merchant of Turia, might be, he was no fool.	10
12	29	But, I reminded myself, such a choice, if choice there must be, might be best for the cities of Gor, for under Kutaituchik the Wagons would not be likely to move northward, nor even to the gates of Turia.	10
12	57	Aphris of Turia wore bells and collar, about her neck the Turian collar hung with bells, about each wrist and ankle, locked, a double row of bells.	10
12	173	She said, very softly, "Aphris of Turia, the slave girl, begs her master that she might clothe herself".	10
12	174	"Aphris of Turia," laughed Kamchak, "begs to be permitted to wear a camisk!" The girl nodded and swiftly put her head down.	10
12	193	I saw that Aphris of Turia would be marvelously attractive in the garment.	10
12	260	We had slept late that day and finally when Kamchak managed to be up and around, after a late breakfast served rather slowly by Elizabeth, and had recollected Aphris and had opened the end of her sleeping quarters and she had crawled out backward and had begged, head to boot, to be allowed to draw w...	10
12	265	Gratefully Aphris of Turia had taken up the leather buckets and hurried away to fetch water.	10
12	302	I doubt that she had ever before experienced a drink stronger than the syrupy wines of Turia.	10
12	330	"I saw," said Kamchak, "how at the games when you thought the men of Turia charging you were prepared to rescue the wench".	10
12	382	I heard Kamchak hush up Aphris of Turia and he gave Elizabeth a poke in the ribs that she might bestir herself.	10
12	424	"She was beautiful," cried out Aphris of Turia.	10
12	461	"Will you carry me over your shoulder to the wagon," she asked, lightly, "like Aphris of Turia?" "I'm sorry," I said.	10
15	1	Harold Turia, to some extent, now lay under siege, though the Tuchuks alone could not adequately invest the city.	10
15	5	Indeed, envoys had flown on tarnback to the Kassars, Kataii and Paravaci, assuring them of Turia's lack of hostile intentions towards them, envoys accompanied by rich gifts.	10
15	6	The cavalries of the Tuchuks, however, managed to maintain a reasonably effective blockade of land routes to Turia.	10
15	8	Several times also, hosts of tharlarion had attempted to protect caravans leaving the city, or advanced to meet scheduled caravans approaching Turia, but each time in spite of this support, the swift, harrying, determined riders of the Tuchuks had forced the caravans to turn back, or man by man, bea...	10
15	12	Also, perhaps not unimportantly, many of Turia's mercenary tarnsmen found themselves engaged in the time-consuming, distasteful task of supplying the city from distant points, often bringing food and arrow wood from as far away as the valleys of the eastern Cartius.	10
15	14	There was no problem of water in the city, incidentally, for Turia's waters are supplied by deep, tile-lined wells, some of them hundreds of feet deep; there are also siege reservoirs, filled with the melted snows of the winter, the rains of the spring.	10
15	15	Kamchak, on kaiilaback, would sit in fury regarding the distant, white walls of Turia.	10
15	29	"But," said Kamchak, "I think in the end Saphrar of Turia will meet their price—and the wagons will be fired and the bosk slain—" He gritted his teeth.	10
15	34	"Let the wagons be gathered," he said, "and the bosk turned from Turia".	10
15	43	Now, to my chagrin, the sphere lay not in a Tuchuk wagon on the open prairie but, presumably, in the House of Saphrar, a merchant stronghold, behind the high, white walls of Turia.	10
15	49	Already the herds had been eased westward, away from Turia toward Thassa, the distant sea.	10
15	51	In the morning the wagons, in their long lines, would follow the slowly moving herds away from Turia.	10
15	60	He now seemed dour, moody, consumed with hatred for Turia and Turians.	10
15	81	Also, perhaps for no reason better than his suddenly found hatred for Aphris of Turia, he seemed in no hurry to free the girls from their confinement.	10
15	94	She seemed to leave the distressed, red-eyed Aphris of Turia alone, perhaps because she was Turian, perhaps because she had no grievance against her.	10
15	99	* * * * I searched among the wagons long before I found, sitting cross-legged beneath a wagon, wrapped in a worn bosk robe, his weapons at hand folded in leather, the young man whose name was Harold, the blond-haired, blue-eyed fellow who had been so victimized by Hereena, she of the First Wagon, wh...	10
15	113	"I am going to Turia," I said.	10
15	114	"That is interesting," said Harold, "I, too, am going to Turia".	10
15	120	"What is it you wish in Turia?" inquired Harold.	10
15	127	"Perhaps," I admitted, "but I think I shall go to Turia and look about for it.	10
15	130	"I expect," I said, "it might be found here or there in the House of Saphrar, a merchant of Turia".	10
15	143	"You will be slain in Turia," said Harold, finishing his meat and wiping his mouth in Tuchuk fashion on the back of his right sleeve.	10
15	147	"I can enter Turia when I wish," he said.	10
15	151	"When are you going to Turia?" I asked.	10
16	1	I Find the Golden Sphere It was not a pleasant path to Turia that Harold the Tuchuk showed to me, but I followed him.	10
16	5	"I learned in Turia," said Harold, "in the public baths where I was once a slave".	10
16	6	The baths of Turia were said to be second only to those of Ar in their luxury, the number of their pools, their temperatures, the scents and oils.	10
16	8	"I was only six years of age when I was taken to Turia, and I did not escape the city for eleven years".	10
16	12	The bath girls of Turia are almost as famous as those of Ar.	10
16	58	Yet I did not care to pursue again that underground stream nor, particularly, on some new trip to Turia, to swim once more against it.	10
16	67	On the other hand, I reminded myself, my own probabilities of success and survival were hardly better—and here I was, his critic—climbing up the drum rope, wet, cold, puffing, a stranger to the city of Turia, intending to steal an object—the egg of Priest-Kings—which was ...	10
16	76	It was necessary only to walk through the archway and find ourselves on one of the streets of Turia.	10
16	97	"I was never a customer," he said, "and I often wondered—like yourself apparently—if the bath girls of Turia are as lovely as it is said".	10
16	114	In the meantime it seemed reasonable to while away some time and the baths of Turia seemed as good a place as any to do so.	10
16	130	We knelt before a low dais, covered with rugs and cushions, on which reclined Saphrar of Turia.	10
16	175	But know, Tarl Cabot, that I am a merchant and understand men and the meaning of gold—I no more object to Ha-Keel dealing with Tuchuks than I would to the fact that water freezes and fire burns—and that no one ever leaves the Yellow Pool of Turia alive".	10
16	176	I did not follow the reference to the Yellow Pool of Turia.	10
16	211	"In fact," continued the small merchant, "it was he who arranged my fortunes and sent me, some years ago, to Turia".	10
16	216	Though raised in Tyros and successful in Turia, Saphrar the merchant thought of himself as one of Port Kar.	10
16	218	"That explains," I said, "how it is that you, though in Turia, can have a galley in Port Kar".	10
16	276	"It was this, was it not," asked Saphrar, looking at me, "that you came to Turia to find?" "Yes," I admitted.	10
16	314	The matter of the message collar had been a clever way of attempting to gain that end but, because of the shrewdness of Tuchuks, who seldom take anything at its face value, it had failed; they had then attempted to bring me down among the wagons with a Paravaci quiva, but that, too, had failed; I gr...	10
16	316	Saphrar, of course, had been in Turia for years.	10
16	330	"Would you like to fight for your life?" asked Saphrar of Turia.	10
16	333	"You may do so in the Yellow Pool of Turia".	10
17	5	The room itself is very lovely and might have been one of the chambers in the renowned baths of Turia.	10
17	62	I certainly had nothing in mind so ridiculous as to hurl at enemies the one weapon which might mean life or death to me in my struggle in the Yellow Pool of Turia.	10
18	19	The quiva had turned itself in my hand and my arm flew back, that I might take with me in my death the tormentor, Saphrar of Turia.	10
18	37	But doubtless by then I would have been half digested, much of me little more than a cream of fluids and proteins then mixing with and nourishing the substance of my devourer—the Yellow Pool of Turia.	10
18	61	Quiva in my teeth I dove toward the deepest part of the Yellow Pool of Turia, where glowed the quickness and substance of the living thing in which I swam.	10
18	70	I now stood on the hardened surface of the Yellow Pool of Turia and saw the fluids of the sides seeping into the mass beneath me and hardening almost instantly.	10
18	87	Harold, wrists still bound behind his back, hurled himself against two men and, screaming, they pitched backward into the Yellow Pool of Turia.	10
18	97	He fell back from my blade, turned once and fell into the glistening, living liquid of the Yellow Pool of Turia.	10
18	102	We heard running feet approaching, those of several men, the clank of arms, the high-pitched, enraged screaming of Saphrar of Turia.	10
18	116	About a hundred and fifty yards away, over several small roofs and domes, all within the vast compound that was the House of Saphrar of Turia, I saw the high walls of what was undoubtedly a Pleasure Garden.	10
19	15	"You are aware, of course," I mentioned, "that the Pleasure Gardens of so rich a man as Saphrar of Turia may contain a large number of female slaves—not all of whom might be trusted to keep silent—and some of whom will undoubtedly notice something as unusual as two strange warriors wan...	10
19	33	And so we sat with our backs against the flower tree in the House of Saphrar, merchant of Turia.	10
19	36	Besides several of the flower trees there were also some Ka-la-na trees, or the yellow wine trees of Gor; there was one large-trunked, reddish Tur tree, about which curled its assemblage of Tur-Pah, a vinelike tree parasite with curled, scarlet, ovate leaves, rather lovely to look upon; the leaves o...	10
19	50	"Why do you think I came to Turia?" he asked.	10
19	203	In a short while Harold, carrying the struggling Hereena, and I had retraced our steps to the central hall and descended the steps of the porch and returned by means of the curving walks between the shrubs and pools to the flower tree by means of which we had originally entered the Pleasure Gardens ...	10
20	154	And in a moment we were speeding high over the city of Turia.	10
20	161	This, I knew, was the morning on which the wagons moved away from Turia, toward distant Thassa, the Sea.	10
21	7	The smoke of the wagon must easily have been seen from the distant walls of Turia.	10
21	13	I wondered that such men as Kamchak and these others would so willingly abandon the siege of Turia.	10
21	19	Slowly, wagon by wagon, the long columns of the Tuchuk retreat were formed, each wagon in its column, each column in its place, and, covering pasangs of prairie, the march from Turia had begun.	10
21	22	"The Tuchuks ride from Turia!" he cried.	10
21	29	My heart felt grateful to the stern, fierce warrior, though he had been in the past days harsh and strange, half drunk with hatred for Turia.	10
21	35	"The Tuchuks ride from Turia," he said.	10
21	41	I then, on foot, following for a time the tracks of the departing wagons, then departing from them, returned to the vicinity of Turia.	10
21	45	I was hardly questioned by guards at the gates of Turia, for the city is a commercial oasis in the plains and during a year hundreds of caravans, not to mention thousands of small merchants, on foot or with a single tharlarion wagon, enter her gates.	10
21	46	To my great surprise the gates of Turia stood open after the withdrawal of the wagons and the lifting of the siege.	10
21	50	I was jostled in the crowds, and twice nearly knocked down by officers in the guard of Phanius Turmus, Ubar of Turia.	10
21	56	I came to the ring of flat, cleared ground, some hundred feet or so wide, which separates the walled compound of buildings which constitutes the House of Saphrar of Turia from all the surrounding structures.	10
21	73	It was that of Kamras of Turia, Champion of the City, whom Kamchak had so sorely bested in the games of Love War.	10
21	95	I had entered Turia easily.	10
21	97	But how could I stay in the city until vigilance at the gates might be relaxed, perhaps three or four days from now? Every guardsman in Turia would be on the lookout for Tarl Cabot, who unfortunately, was not difficult to recognize.	10
21	110	"Dina of Turia!" I cried.	10
21	111	* * * * I stayed four days in the rooms above the shop of Dina of Turia.	10
21	139	In answer to her questions I told her the reason for which I had entered the city—to steal an object of value from Saphrar of Turia, which he himself had stolen from the Tuchuks.	10
21	148	"You are very beautiful, Dina of Turia," I said to her.	10
21	149	For four days I remained with the girl, and each day, once at noon and once in the evening, we would stroll by one or more of the gates of Turia, to see if the guards might now be less vigilant than they had been the time before.	10
21	162	Indeed, it is possible I might have died the first night in Turia had it not been that Dina had seen me, followed me and in my time of need boldly stood forth as my ally.	10
21	169	I lived in constant fear that the gray man—he with eyes like glass—would come to Turia on tarnback and acquire, before I could act, the golden sphere—for which so much had been risked, for which apparently more than one man had died.	10
21	172	Indeed, the broad walk, some thirty feet wide, within the high walls of Turia, with the view over the plains, is a favorite promenade of Turian couples.	10
21	186	"I shall miss you, too, my Dina of Turia," I told her.	10
21	189	We stood on the wall near the main gate of Turia, through which I had entered the city some four days ago, the morning after the departure of the Tuchuk wagons for the pastures this side of the Ta-Thassa Mountains, beyond which lay the vast, gleaming Thassa itself.	10
21	199	"You know we have hunting sleen in Turia?" "Yes," I said, "I know".	10
21	202	Tarnsmen would have little difficulty in finding a rider and mount on the open prairie near Turia.	10
21	203	It was almost certain they would be flying within minutes after an alarm was sounded, even though they need be summoned from the baths, the paga taverns, the gaming rooms of Turia, in which of late, the siege over, they had been freely spending their mercenary gold, much to the delight of Turians.	10
21	232	It was approaching the main gate of Turia.	10
21	233	I seized Dina of Turia in my arms.	10
21	362	"I want the blood of Saphrar of Turia," he cried.	10
22	4	Much of Turia was in flames.	10
22	7	Most of the High Council of Turia, too, now reposed in Tuchuk chains.	10
22	36	At last it was night and we were making our way through the streets of Turia, sometimes between burning buildings.	10
22	44	Then he added, "Much of the richest booty of Turia lies behind these walls".	10
22	85	It was Dina of Turia! The laughing Tuchuk, he with the bloody shoulder, hauled her before us.	10
22	96	"With our lives!" Dina of Turia looked at me, gratitude in her eyes.	10
22	100	I knew that while the Tuchuks remained in Turia there would be in all the city no woman more safe than lovely Dina, she only of the Caste of Bakers.	10
22	109	Near him, in places of honor, at a long, low table, above the bowls of yellow and red salt, on each side, sat many of the high men of Turia, clad in their finest robes, their hair oiled, scented and combed for the banquet.	10
22	110	I saw among them Kamras, Champion of Turia, and another, on Kamchak's right hand, a heavy, swollen, despondent man, who could only have been Phanius Turmus himself.	10
22	122	"I did not expect to see you in Turia," I said.	10
22	123	"Neither did the Turians," remarked Harold, reaching over the shoulder of one of the high council of Turia and taking a candied verr chop.	10
22	132	"I do not want Turia," he said.	10
22	139	More foods and wines were served, and even the high men of Turia, at quiva point, were forced to drink heavily and some began to mumble and weep, while the feasters grew, to the barbaric melodies of the musicians, ever more merry and wild.	10
23	11	I had learned to my surprise that the Ubars of the Kassars, Kataii and Paravaci were, respectively, Conrad, Hakimba and Tolnus, the very three I had first encountered with Kamchak on the plains of Turia when first I came to the Wagon Peoples.	10
23	20	It was little to him, apparently, that the Paravaci should raid the herds and wagons of the Tuchuks when most of the Tuchuk warriors were engaged in Turia.	10
23	22	I sensed, however, that he was angry when I spoke of the probable complicity of the Paravaci with the Turians, striking when and how they did, even during the Omen Year, presumably to draw the Tuchuks away from Turia.	10
23	32	"Yes," I said, "and cutting out the nose rings to sell in Turia after the Tuchuks withdraw".	10
23	88	Taking council with Harold, we dispatched a rider to Kamchak in Turia, informing him of the situation, and that we had little hope of holding out.	10
23	90	"It will take the rider, if he gets through, seven Ahn to reach Turia and even if Kamchak rides with his full force the moment the rider comes to the gates of the city, it will be eight Ahn before their vanguard can reach us—and by then it will be too late".	10
23	93	Both Harold and I then spoke with our men, each issuing orders that any man with us who wished might now withdraw from the wagons and rejoin the main forces in Turia.	10
23	163	"I regret only," I said, "that I sent word to Kamchak and even now he has withdrawn his men from Turia and is returning to the wagons".	10
23	164	"No," said Hakimba, "we sent riders to Turia even as we left our own camp.	10
23	189	Following him, in a few hours, would be a Thousand each from the Kataii and the Kassars, to lend him what aid they might in his work in Turia.	10
23	192	Whether, after we had moved the wagons and bosk some pasangs away, we should remain there, or proceed toward the pastures this side of the Ta-Thassa Mountains, or return toward Turia, was not decided.	10
23	199	I myself was anxious to return to Turia as soon as it could be well managed.	10
23	200	Harold, willingly enough, volunteered to remain in the camp until the commander of a Thousand could be sent from Turia to relieve him.	10
23	201	I appreciated this very much on his part, for I keenly wished to return to Turia as soon as it would be at all practical—I had pressing and significant business yet unfinished behind its walls.	10
23	218	I wondered on the fate of Aphris of Turia.	10
24	1	The Wagon of a Commander Turia was now largely under the control of Tuchuks.	10
24	3	The morning after the Battle at the Wagons I had mounted a rested kaiila and set forth for Turia.	10
24	6	I left the kaiila with the Tuchuks and mounted my tarn, and, in less than an Ahn, saw the shimmering walls of Turia in the distance, and the veils of smoke rising over the city.	10
24	10	The only reason that occurred to me why Saphrar had not yet fled was that he was waiting in Turia for an excellent reason—quite possibly the arrival on tarnback of the gray man—with whom he had negotiated apparently to secure the golden sphere.	10
24	12	I knew that Kamchak was in constant touch, by means of riders, with the wagons of the Tuchuks, and so I did not speak with him of the looting of his wagon, nor of the fate of Aphris of Turia, nor did I deem it well to speak to him of Elizabeth Cardwell, for it seemed evident that he had sold her, an...	10
24	13	I did ask Kamchak why, considering the probabilities that the Kataii and the Kassars would not have come to the aid of the Tuchuks, he had not abandoned Turia and returned with his main forces to the wagons.	10
24	21	On the day following my arrival in Turia, Harold, on tarnback, relieved at his request of the command of the wagons and herds, joined me in the palace of Phanius Turmus.	10
24	31	"The Wagon Peoples need Turia," said Kamchak, simply.	10
24	33	Yet it seemed to me true, for Turia was the main avenue of contact between the Wagon Peoples and the other cities of Gor, the gate through which trade goods flowed to the wilderness of grasses that was the land of the riders of the kaiila and the herders of bosk.	10
24	34	Without Turia, to be sure, the Wagon Peoples would undoubtedly be the poorer.	10
24	40	Still I was not altogether satisfied, for, on the whole, it seemed to me that Turia might yet have survived even had Kamchak's forces wrought much greater destruction than they had—for example, opening but a single gate and permitting only a few hundred, rather than thousands to escape the ci...	10
24	42	"Is that the only reason that so many of Turia yet live beyond the city?" He looked at me, without expression.	10
24	47	He professed a cruel hatred of Turia and Turians, and yet he had, considering the normal practices of the Wagon Peoples, not noted for their mercy to helpless foes, treated the unarmed citizens of the city with unique indulgence, permitting them, on the whole, to keep their lives and freedom, though...	10
24	74	I knew Kamchak had brought, over the past few days, several hundred bosk to graze near Turia, to use in feeding his troops.	10
24	94	"The night that you and I departed for Turia, Kamchak ordered a wagon prepared for each of us—to reward us".	10
24	95	I remembered that night—the long swim against the underground current, the well, our capture, the Yellow Pool of Turia, the Pleasure Gardens, the tarns—and escape.	10
24	124	"It would have been rather difficult to get near the gates of Turia for a fellow wearing the Courage Scar, would it not?" "Indeed it would," I laughed.	10
24	141	"You would have found out long ago," said Harold, "had you not rushed off to Turia again immediately after our return—when the wagons were moving toward Ta-Thassa.	10
24	145	"She was not in the sleen cage the morning of our return from Turia with the tarns," said Harold.	10
24	161	In Turia, even though we had much of the riches of the city at our disposal, there had not been much paga or Ka-la-na wine.	10
24	174	Muttering I jerked loose the reins of my kaiila from the column to which I had tethered it, leaped to the saddle and raced after Harold, not wishing to be left behind somewhere in the streets of Turia or among the dark wagons beyond the gate, pounding on wagon after wagon to find which one might be ...	10
24	179	"Very well," I said, and we walked our kaiila at a stately pace toward Turia's main gate.	10
25	164	I could scarcely believe that the proud creature who stood chained before me was she whom Kamchak and I had referred to as the Little Barbarian; whom I had been able to think of only as a timid, simple girl of Earth, a young, pretty little secretary, one of nameless, unimportant thousands of such in...	10
25	175	She had now picked up the yellow sheet and, with a pin or two, booty from Turia probably, fastened it gracefully about her.	10
26	1	The Egg of Priest-Kings In the dampness and darkness long before dawn the forces of Kamchak, crowding the streets of Turia in the vicinity of Saphrar's compound, waited silently, like dark shapes on the stones; here and there the glint of a weapon or accouterment could be made out in the fading lig...	10
26	53	"He is coming to bargain with Saphrar, but I can better whatever terms he is offered—for I have all the gold and women of Turia, and by nightfall I will have the private hordes of Saphrar himself".	10
26	70	"I have waited long for the blood of Saphrar of Turia," he said.	10
26	82	"Let Saphrar of Turia die by gold," he said.	10
26	83	Only then did I understand with horror the depth of Kamchak's hatred of Saphrar of Turia.	10
26	86	Kamchak, in his Tuchuk cruelty, would stand quietly to one side and, coin by coin, bit by bit, buy Saphrar of Turia.	10
26	90	I gathered that Saphrar, in the years he had built his power in Turia, had for his own purposes gathered such men about him, and now he would pay the price—with his own life.	10
26	99	And following him, among the warriors, were several Turian slaves, clad in chains and the Kes, among them Kamras, Champion of Turia, and Phanius Turmus, the Turian Ubar, all of whom carried large pans filled with sacks of gold.	10
26	105	Behind them I was startled to see suddenly a scurrying figure in white and gold, Saphrar of Turia.	10
26	115	"Give greetings to Saphrar of Turia from Kamchak of the Tuchuks," said Kamchak calmly.	10
26	117	"Kamchak of the Tuchuks," he said, "gives greetings to Saphrar of Turia".	10
26	126	In the main hall he looked about and then, Harold and I following, and the man with the two sleen, and the slaves with gold, and his archers and other men, he began to walk his kaiila forward, across the broad marble tiles, following the terrified Saphrar of Turia.	10
26	130	Our pursuit carried us from room to room, through hall after hall, in the great house of Saphrar of Turia.	10
26	145	I supposed Saphrar of Turia must have carried lamp or torch, or perhaps that he knew the passage by heart.	10
26	154	I recognized it immediately, for it was the room in which Harold and I had been brought prisoner before Saphrar of Turia.	10
26	194	Then Kamchak lifted his head and regarded the other three men, seated Ha-Keel, calm with his sword, and the frantic Saphrar of Turia, and the tall Paravaci, with the quiva.	10
26	267	I can give you half the riches of the Paravaci! Bosk and gold and women and wagons!" "I would suppose," said Ha-Keel, "that all that you have is not worth so much as the golden sphere—and that is Saphrar of Turia's".	10
26	292	I recalled Tolnus, for he had been one of the four Ubars of the Wagon Peoples, whom I, unknowing, had met when first I came to the Plains of Turia, to the Land of the Wagon Peoples.	10
26	305	I would not have cared to have been Saphrar of Turia.	10
26	340	We came together to the brink of the Yellow Pool of Turia.	10
26	341	At its marbled edge, hissing and quivering with rage, throwing their heads now and again upward and howling in frustrated fury were the two tawny hunting sleen, their maddened round eyes blazing on the pathetic figure of Saphrar of Turia, blubbering and whimpering, sobbing, reaching out, his fingers...	10
26	357	Then Saphrar, merchant of Turia, struggled, pounding against the caked material near to him, to prevent his being drawn under.	10
26	368	He looked down into the sparkling, glistening living fluid of the Yellow Pool of Turia.	10
26	369	"It was Saphrar of Turia," said Kamchak to me, "who first introduced Kutaituchik to the strings of kanda".	10
26	378	For better than an hour it burned and then the basin of the pool, now black, in places the marble fused and melted, was empty, save for smears of carbon and grease, and some cracked, blackened bones, and some drops of melted gold, what had been left perhaps of the golden drops which Saphrar of Turia...	10
26	384	He added, "As you said, we did not fire on him for he did not have with him the merchant, Saphrar of Turia".	10
26	438	He added, "It was wise of them, for the Wagon Peoples are among the farthest and most fierce of the Goreans, living free hundreds of pasangs from all cities, save Turia".	10
26	516	"By the way, Ubar," asked Harold, winking at me, "what was it you paid for Aphris of Turia?" Kamchak threw him a look that might have been a quiva in the heart.	10
26	560	Again we laughed and, suddenly, we urged the kaiila forward in great bounding strides, eager to reach the wagons, each of us, for waiting in these wagons were three girls, desirable, marvelous, ours, Hereena, she who had been of the First Wagon, the slave of Harold, her master; Aphris of Turia, almo...	10
27	1	The Sparing of the Home Stone of Turia I gathered that the best season for hunting tumits, the large, flightless carnivorous birds of the southern plains, was at hand, for Kamchak, Harold and others seemed to be looking forward to it with great eagerness.	10
27	2	Kutaituchik avenged, Kamchak was no longer interested in Turia, though he wished the city to be restored, perhaps in order that the Wagon Peoples might have a valuable trade outlet whereby they could manage, if the caravan raids turned out poorly, to barter hides and horn for the goods of civilizati...	10
27	3	On the last day before the withdrawal of the Wagon Peoples from nine-gated, high-walled Turia, Kamchak held court in the palace of Phanius Turmus.	10
27	4	The Turian Ubar himself, with Kamras, former Champion of Turia, both clad in the Kes, were chained at the door, to wash the feet of those who would enter.	10
27	5	Turia had been a rich city, and though much gold had been given to the tarnsmen of Ha-Keel and the defenders of the House of Saphrar, it was a tiny amount when compared with the whole, not even counting that lost by being carried by civilians through the gates Kamchak had designated as escapes from ...	10
27	7	I recalled that never before had Turia fallen, not since the founding of the city, perhaps thousands of years ago.	10
27	9	Kamchak, as a Tuchuk, could not bring himself to be quite as generous with the city's women, and the five thousand most beautiful girls of Turia were branded and given to the commanders of Hundreds, that they might be distributed to the bravest and fiercest of their warriors; the others were permitt...	10
27	11	The most marvelous set of the latter were the beauties from the Pleasure Gardens of Saphrar of Turia.	10
27	18	Beside me, clad not Kajir but in the brief leather of one of the Wagon Girls, though collared, stood Elizabeth Cardwell; similarly attired and collared, I noted, standing a bit behind Harold of the Tuchuks, I saw the fiery Hereena; she was perhaps the only one of all the girls of the Wagon Peoples t...	10
27	20	As fellow after fellow, men of importance in Turia, were dragged before his throne, in the Kes and chained, Kamchak would say to them, "Your goods and your women are mine.	10
27	21	Who is the Master of Turia?" "Kamchak of the Tuchuks," they would say, and be dragged away.	10
27	22	To some he would ask, "Has Turia fallen?" And they would bow their heads and say, "She has fallen".	10
27	25	"Whose is the wealth of Turia?" he asked.	10
27	27	Kamchak thrust his fist affectionately into the hair of Aphris of Turia and twisted her head to him.	10
27	28	"Whose are the women of Turia?" he asked.	10
27	31	"Who," laughed Kamchak, "is Ubar of Turia?" "Kamchak of the Tuchuks," said the two.	10
27	36	"Turia lives," said he, "Ubar".	10
27	39	"You will spare Turia, Master?" asked Aphris, wondering, knowing the hatred he had borne the city.	10
27	40	"Yes," said he, "Turia will live".	10
27	68	Shortly before Albrecht and Tenchika had been there, and Dina of Turia with her two Tuchuk guards, who had kept her safe from harm during the fall of the city.	10
27	69	Tenchika had approached Dina of Turia.	10
27	73	"Will you now return to Turia?" asked Dina.	10
27	85	I approached Dina of Turia.	10
27	96	"And I," I said, "wish you well—noble Dina of Turia".	10
27	166	"You will once again be the richest woman in all of Turia".	10
27	181	"Why is it," I asked Harold, "that he so spared Turia?" "His mother was Turian," said Harold.	10
27	196	We turned from the gate, to ride down the long avenue leading toward the main gate of Turia.	10
27	199	We turned our mounts and saw Aphris of Turia, barefoot, clad Kajir, running after us.	10
27	219	"Ride with me, Aphris of Turia," said Kamchak of the Tuchuks.	10
28	51	"And while you are remembering things," remarked Harold, "you might recollect that we two together won the Courage Scar in Turia".	10
28	59	"But," I protested, "there have been many things of much greater importance than those in these years—the Siege of Turia, the Taking of the City, the Election of the Ubar San!" "We choose most to remember Tarl Cabot," said Kamchak.	10
28	68	"Good fortune attend you, Tarl Cabot, Commander of a Thousand Tuchuks, Warrior of Ko-ro-ba!" I lifted my hand to them and then drew on the one-strap and the wings of the great tarn began to strike the resistant air and the Tuchuks on all sides fell back stumbling in the dust and the driven wind smot...	10

Book 5. (8 results) Assassin of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	149	I remembered her on the Plains of Turia, in the Land of the Wagon Peoples.	10
4	188	"I am only a girl from the islands north of Cos, taken by pirates of Port Kar, sold to a tarnsman, carried to and sold again in the city of Turia, and hence for twenty boskhides traded to the Tuchuks, where I was ringed and branded".	10
4	193	"I was later sold in Tor," she said, "far to the north of Turia.	10
5	145	* * * * Some months before, Elizabeth and I, the egg of Priest-Kings in the saddlepack of my tarn, had returned to the north from the Plains of Turia, the Land of the Wagon Peoples.	10
13	125	Harold, as a boy, had once been a slave in the baths, those of the city of Turia, before he had escaped.	10
15	355	For good measure she also taught them the independent dance, sometimes called the Dance of the Tuchuk Slave Girl, which I had once seen performed at a banquet in Turia.	10
21	295	Indeed, the Torian Squares, which I have mentioned, common among Gorean infantries, with their superior mobility and regrouping capacities, had, long ago, made the phalanxes of such cities as Ar and, in the south, Turia, obsolete.	10
22	396	It is small, double-curved, about four feet in length, built up of layers of bosk horn, bound and reinforced with metal and leather; it is banded with metal at seven points, including the grip, metal obtained from Turia in half-inch rolled strips; the leather is applied diagonally, in two-inch strip...	10

Book 6. (8 results) Raiders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
9	117	I knew one of these mercenary captains, Ha-Keel, murderer, once of Ar, whom I had met in Turia, in the house of Saphrar, a merchant.	10
10	217	These islands, with occasional free ports on the coast, north and south of the Gorean equator, such as Lydius and Helmutsport, and Schendi and Bazi, make possible the commerce between Cos and Tyros, and the mainland, and its cities, such as Ko-ro-ba, Thentis, Tor, Ar, Turia, and many others.	10
10	259	I recalled I had once tried one, but had not cared for it, at a banquet in Turia, in the house of a man named Saphrar, who had been a merchant.	10
10	260	Saphrar, I recalled, had once been a perfumer from Tyros but, being exiled as a thief, had made his way to Port Kar, and thence had gone to Turia.	10
11	246	"Yes!" "And," I said, "what of Ar, and Ko-ro-ba, and Treve, and Thentis, and Turia, and Tharna and Tor!" "Yes, yes, yes!" he whimpered.	10
15	442	He lifted, heavily, to the dais on which my chair and table sat a heavy leather sack filled with golden tarn disks of double weight, of Cos and Tyros, of Ar and Port Kar, even of distant Thentis and remote Turia, far to the south.	10
15	610	I stood and threw about me showers of the tarn disks of Ar, of Tyros, of Cos, Thentis, Turia and Port Kar!.	10
17	301	I had met Ha-Keel at a house in Turia, the house of Saphrar, a Merchant.	10

Book 7. (6 results) Captive of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
11	133	Much of the hides, the horn and leather which found its way northward came from Turia, obtained from the Wagon Peoples of the treeless southern plains, and many of the manufactured goods, and goods of price, which found their way to the far south, and even to the Wagon Peoples, were produced in, or ...	10
11	93	The piercing of the ears of women, only of slave girls, of course, was a custom of distant Turia, famed for its wealth and its nine great gates.	10
11	130	Turia, I had heard, had not been destroyed.	10
11	134	Perhaps the Tuchuks, one of the fierce Wagon Peoples, traditional enemies of Turia, her conquerors, had spared her for such reasons, that they might have outlet for their goods and a source for goods they could not well manufacture, or acquire, for themselves.	10
11	135	It was still dangerous, however, to take caravans to Turia.	10
11	136	For whatever reasons, Turia, though once conquered, had been spared.	10

Book 8. (10 results) Hunters of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	63	"We," he said, "are of Turia".	10
3	65	Turia is a city of the far south, below the equator.	10
3	104	Lydius is one of the few cities of the north which has public baths, as in Ar and Turia, though much smaller and less opulent.	10
3	109	Those of Lydius pretend to much civilization, and are fond of decorating their houses, commonly of wood, with high, pointed roofs, in manners they think typical of Ar, of Ko-ro-ba, of Tharna and Turia, but to settle points of honor they commonly repair to a skerry in Thassa, little more than forty f...	10
3	205	The master might have been from as far away as Ar, or Tor, or Turia.	10
12	75	Phanius Turmus, of Turia, was said to have two daughters.	10
12	78	Turia was called the Ar of the south.	10
15	276	They were Harl rings, named for the slaver Harl of Turia, who is reported to have first used them.	10
22	101	Saphrar, a merchant of Tyros, resplendent in Turia, had similarly described the man who had enlisted his services in behalf of those who contested worlds with Priest-Kings.	10
22	864	Perhaps she would be carried south in tarn caravan, or by slave wagon, and would be slave in Turia, or perhaps even in the wagons of the Wagon Peoples, the Tuchuks, the Kassars, the Kataii, the Paravaci.	10

Book 9. (10 results) Marauders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	5	No longer was it set with festive yellow and scarlet cloths, woven in distant Tor; no longer did it bear the freight of plates of silver from the mines of Tharna, nor of cunningly wrought goblets of gold from the smithies of luxurious Turia, Ar of the south.	10
1	99	And he had gone to the Land of the Wagon Peoples, to the Plains of Turia, and had obtained there the last egg of Priest-Kings and had returned it, safe, to the Sardar.	10
1	342	Yet, to be sure, it was less than she would have brought if expertly displayed on the block in Turia or Ar, or Ko-ro-ba, or Tharna, or Port Kar.	10
1	498	"He is a renegade from Turia, a lost man," had said Thurnock.	10
1	501	I knew well the name of Iskander of Turia.	10
1	505	He had, in the course of his practice in Turia, once given treatment outside of its walls to a young Tuchuk warrior, whose name was Kamchak.	10
1	515	The findings of Iskander of Turia matched those of the other physicians, but, to my astonishment, when he had replaced his instruments in the pouch slung at his shoulder, he said, "The wounds were given by blades of Tyros".	10
1	549	I wondered if what Iskander of Turia had conjectured was correct or not.	10
3	27	Weapons are not to be carried in the temple of Priest-Kings but I had been taught, long ago, by Kamchak of the Tuchuks, at a banquet in Turia, that where weapons may not be carried, it is well to carry weapons.	10
4	84	Turia, however, uses the Summer Solstice.	10

Book 11. (1 results) Slave Girl of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	530	In the fall of the city of Turia, some years ago, thousands of its citizens had fled, many of them merchants or of merchant families; with the preservation of the city, and the restoration of the Ubarate of Phanius Turmus, many of these families returned; new contacts had been made, new products dis...	10

Book 16. (1 results) Guardsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
11	191	Interestingly, in Turia itself, it is known simply as the "camisk," and what I have called the common camisk is, in Turia, referred to as the "northern camisk".	10

Book 20. (1 results) Players of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	178	It is not altogether clear what happened to Clearchus but some historians identify him with Clearchus of Turia, an immigrant, with followers, to Turia, now chiefly remembered as a patron of the arts and philanthropist.	10

Book 31. (1 results) Conspirators of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
49	225	Trachinos, who had originally claimed to be from Turia, was apparently curious to see what Turia might be like.	10