Book 13. (7 results) Explorers of Gor (Context Quote)
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Sentence #
Quote
16
87
In the event that the central channel, when completed, would not prove sufficient to handle the overflow of Ngao, as seemed likely, conducting it geometrically to Ushindi, side channels were contemplated.
16
88
The eventual intent of Bila Huruma was not only to open the rain forests of the deep interior, and whatever might lie within the system of the Ua and her tributaries, to commercial exploitation and military expansion, but to drain the marshes between the two mighty lakes, Ushindi and Ngao, that that land, then reclaimed, thousands of square pasangs, might eventually be made available for agriculture.
16
89
It was the intent of Bila Huruma not only to consolidate a ubarate but found a civilization.
16
90
I slapped at insects.
16
91
"Work," said an askari, wading by.
16
92
I shoveled another load of mud from the marsh and flung it on the mud raft.
16
93
"Work, work," said the askari, encouraging others along the chain.
In the event that the central channel, when completed, would not prove sufficient to handle the overflow of Ngao, as seemed likely, conducting it geometrically to Ushindi, side channels were contemplated.
The eventual intent of Bila Huruma was not only to open the rain forests of the deep interior, and whatever might lie within the system of the Ua and her tributaries, to commercial exploitation and military expansion, but to drain the marshes between the two mighty lakes, Ushindi and Ngao, that that land, then reclaimed, thousands of square pasangs, might eventually be made available for agriculture.
It was the intent of Bila Huruma not only to consolidate a ubarate but found a civilization.
I slapped at insects.
"Work," said an askari, wading by.
I shoveled another load of mud from the marsh and flung it on the mud raft.
"Work, work," said the askari, encouraging others along the chain.
- (Explorers of Gor, Chapter )