Book 7. (7 results) Captive of Gor (Context Quote)
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439
Various cities, through their own Merchant Castes, lease land for these stockades and, for their fees, keep their garrisons, usually men of their own cities, supplied.
12
440
The stockades are governed under Merchant Law, legislated and revised, and upheld, at the Sardar Fairs.
12
441
The walls are double, the interior wall higher, and tarn wire is strung over the compound.
12
442
These forts do not differ much, except in size, from the common border forts, which cities sometimes maintain at the peripheries of their claims.
12
443
In the border forts, of course, there is little provision for the goods of merchants, their wagons, and such.
12
444
There is usually room for little more than their garrisons, and their slaves.
12
445
I hoped I would not be a slave girl in a distant border fort.
Various cities, through their own Merchant Castes, lease land for these stockades and, for their fees, keep their garrisons, usually men of their own cities, supplied.
The stockades are governed under Merchant Law, legislated and revised, and upheld, at the Sardar Fairs.
The walls are double, the interior wall higher, and tarn wire is strung over the compound.
These forts do not differ much, except in size, from the common border forts, which cities sometimes maintain at the peripheries of their claims.
In the border forts, of course, there is little provision for the goods of merchants, their wagons, and such.
There is usually room for little more than their garrisons, and their slaves.
I hoped I would not be a slave girl in a distant border fort.
- (Captive of Gor, Chapter )