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How inordinately precious and desirable they are! How inevitable it is to relish them, and strive to possess them! How comprehensible that they should be sought and secured, roped and chained, that they should be bought and sold, that they should be branded and collared, that there be no mistaking them; how natural and perfect that they should be owned and mastered. It is what they are for. Nature has designed their soft lips to be pressed to the feet of men. Tersites, master of the ship, and master shipwright, to whose specifications the great ship had been built, had refused to pour oil, and wine, and salt into the sea. A mariner had attempted to do so, in the wind and rain, in darkness, after the twentieth Ahn, but was apprehended by the deck patrol, and, by order of Tersites himself, was put under the lash, the snake, twelve strokes. The fellow was strong, and survived. As I worked at the pump, my thoughts strayed to the slave, Alcinoë. - (Mariners of Gor, Chapter )