Book 10. (7 results) Tribesmen of Gor (Context Quote)
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Quote
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438
I saw no one approaching from other directions.
4
439
There might be, of course, such delayed charges.
4
440
Reassured I was to see points riding out about the caravan, outriders, to guard against such surprise.
4
441
I saw Farouk, merchant and caravan master, ride by, burnoose swirling behind him, lance in hand.
4
442
With him were six men.
4
443
I saw drovers, holding the reins of their beasts, shading their eyes, looking over the dust to the east.
4
444
One of the kinsmen of Farouk went to the kurdahs of slave girls, hobble chains at his saddle pommel; he would rein in before a kurdah, throw the girl the hobble and order her, "Shackle yourself"; he would wait the moment it took for the girl to snap the small ring about her right wrist and, behind her body, the larger one about her left ankle; the rings are separated by about six inches of chain; they are not sleeping hobbles, which confine only the ankles; then he would rush to the next kurdah, fling a hobble to the next girl, and repeat his command.
I saw no one approaching from other directions.
There might be, of course, such delayed charges.
Reassured I was to see points riding out about the caravan, outriders, to guard against such surprise.
I saw Farouk, merchant and caravan master, ride by, burnoose swirling behind him, lance in hand.
With him were six men.
I saw drovers, holding the reins of their beasts, shading their eyes, looking over the dust to the east.
One of the kinsmen of Farouk went to the kurdahs of slave girls, hobble chains at his saddle pommel; he would rein in before a kurdah, throw the girl the hobble and order her, "Shackle yourself"; he would wait the moment it took for the girl to snap the small ring about her right wrist and, behind her body, the larger one about her left ankle; the rings are separated by about six inches of chain; they are not sleeping hobbles, which confine only the ankles; then he would rush to the next kurdah, fling a hobble to the next girl, and repeat his command.
- (Tribesmen of Gor, Chapter )