Book 17. (7 results) Savages of Gor (Context Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 797 | They tend to be a more slender, longer-limbed people; their daughters menstruate earlier; and their babies are not born with a blue spot at the base of the spine, as is the case with most of the red hunters. |
| 1 | 798 | Their culture tends to be nomadic, and is based on the herbivorous, lofty kaiila, substantially the same animal as is found in the Tahari, save for the wider footpads of the Tahari beast, suitable for negotiating deep sand, and the lumbering, gregarious, short-tempered, trident-horned kailiauk. |
| 1 | 799 | To be sure, some tribes do not have the kaiila, never having mastered it, and certain tribes have mastered the tarn, which tribes are the most dangerous of all. |
| 1 | 800 | Although there are numerous physical and cultural differences among these people they are usually collectively referred to as the red savages. |
| 1 | 801 | This is presumably a function of so little being known about them, as a whole, and the cunning, ruthlessness and ferocity of so many of the tribes. |
| 1 | 802 | They seem to live for hunting and internecine warfare, which seems to serve almost as a sport and a religion for them. |
| 1 | 803 | Interestingly enough most of these tribes seem to be united only by a hatred of whites, which hatred, invariably, in a time of emergency or crisis, takes precedence over all customary conflicts and rivalries. |
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They tend to be a more slender, longer-limbed people; their daughters menstruate earlier; and their babies are not born with a blue spot at the base of the spine, as is the case with most of the red hunters.
Their culture tends to be nomadic, and is based on the herbivorous, lofty kaiila, substantially the same animal as is found in the Tahari, save for the wider footpads of the Tahari beast, suitable for negotiating deep sand, and the lumbering, gregarious, short-tempered, trident-horned kailiauk.
To be sure, some tribes do not have the kaiila, never having mastered it, and certain tribes have mastered the tarn, which tribes are the most dangerous of all.
Although there are numerous physical and cultural differences among these people they are usually collectively referred to as the red savages.
This is presumably a function of so little being known about them, as a whole, and the cunning, ruthlessness and ferocity of so many of the tribes.
They seem to live for hunting and internecine warfare, which seems to serve almost as a sport and a religion for them.
Interestingly enough most of these tribes seem to be united only by a hatred of whites, which hatred, invariably, in a time of emergency or crisis, takes precedence over all customary conflicts and rivalries.
- (Savages of Gor, Chapter )