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Book 30. (7 results) Mariners of Gor (Context Quote)

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3 28 And, as an oarsman, I would have little if any information pertaining to rich cargoes and secret schedulings.
3 29 Clerks would know more of that than I.
3 30 Perhaps they wanted news of the world.
3 31 Surely it seemed they had their own world, their own city, a floating island of wood.
3 32 Perhaps they knew as little of the world as the world knew of them.
3 33 Given the treatment to which I had been subjected, my stripping, and binding, and blindfolding, it seemed clear that I would not be offered the opportunity to sign articles with them, and make one with them, even were I willing, even eager, to do so.
3 34 And would they not view me as their enemy, for did our ship not fire upon their mountain of wood when it trod, however unwittingly, upon our vessel? I had heard the harsh crackings, marking the launching of sets of javelins, doubtless ignited.
And, as an oarsman, I would have little if any information pertaining to rich cargoes and secret schedulings. Clerks would know more of that than I. Perhaps they wanted news of the world. Surely it seemed they had their own world, their own city, a floating island of wood. Perhaps they knew as little of the world as the world knew of them. Given the treatment to which I had been subjected, my stripping, and binding, and blindfolding, it seemed clear that I would not be offered the opportunity to sign articles with them, and make one with them, even were I willing, even eager, to do so. And would they not view me as their enemy, for did our ship not fire upon their mountain of wood when it trod, however unwittingly, upon our vessel? I had heard the harsh crackings, marking the launching of sets of javelins, doubtless ignited. - (Mariners of Gor, Chapter )