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On the pack animals were strapped boxes of precious plate, gems, silver vessels, tangles of jewelry, mirrors, rings, combs, and golden tarn disks, stamped with the signs of a dozen cities. - (Nomads of Gor, Chapter 9, Sentence #70)

The Turians, doubtless, regarded this as a hopelessly barbarian inhibition on my part. I had, perhaps, however, drunk too much paga. This afternoon Kamchak and I, leading four pack kaiila, had entered the first gate of nine-gated Turia. On the pack animals were strapped boxes of precious plate, gems, silver vessels, tangles of jewelry, mirrors, rings, combs, and golden tarn disks, stamped with the signs of a dozen cities. These were brought as gifts to the Turians, largely as a rather insolent gesture on the part of the Wagon Peoples, indicating how little they cared for such things, that they would give them to Turians. Turian embassies to the Wagon Peoples, when they occurred, naturally strove to equal or surpass these gifts. Kamchak told me, a sort of secret I gather, that some of the things he carried had been exchanged back and forth a dozen times. - (Nomads of Gor, Chapter 9)