• Home
  • Contact

Results Details

"insects " "beetle "

Book 10. (7 results) Tribesmen of Gor (Context Quote)

Chapter # Sentence # Quote
10 36 Crawling insects of various sorts, and predator insects, however, are found in many areas, even far from water.
10 37 The zadit is a small, tawny-feathered, sharp-billed bird.
10 38 It feeds on insects.
10 39 When sand flies and other insects, emergent after rains, infest kaiila, they frequently alight on the animals, and remain on them for some hours, hunting insects.
10 40 This relieves the kaiila of the insects but leaves it with numerous small wounds, which are unpleasant and irritating, where the bird has dug insects out of its hide.
10 41 These tiny wounds, if they become infected, turn into sores; these sores are treated by the drovers with poultices of kaiila dung.
10 42 "Six days ago," said the merchant, "soldiers, Aretai, from Nine Wells raided the Oasis of the Sand Sleen".
Crawling insects of various sorts, and predator insects, however, are found in many areas, even far from water. The zadit is a small, tawny-feathered, sharp-billed bird. It feeds on insects. When sand flies and other insects, emergent after rains, infest kaiila, they frequently alight on the animals, and remain on them for some hours, hunting insects. This relieves the kaiila of the insects but leaves it with numerous small wounds, which are unpleasant and irritating, where the bird has dug insects out of its hide. These tiny wounds, if they become infected, turn into sores; these sores are treated by the drovers with poultices of kaiila dung. "Six days ago," said the merchant, "soldiers, Aretai, from Nine Wells raided the Oasis of the Sand Sleen". - (Tribesmen of Gor, Chapter )