Book 3. (7 results) Priest-Kings of Gor (Context Quote)
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81
The expeditions sent out from the cities are of course extremely well guarded, but pirates and outlaws too can band together in large numbers and sometimes, even more dangerously, one city's warriors, in force, will prey upon another city's caravans.
1
82
This, incidentally, is one of the more frequent causes of war among these cities.
1
83
The fact that warriors of one city sometimes wear the insignia of cities hostile to their own when they make these attacks further compounds the suspicions and internecine strife which afflicts the Gorean cities.
1
84
This chain of reflections was occasioned in my mind by sight of some men of Port Kar, a savage, coastal city on the Tamber Gulf, who were displaying a sullen chain of twenty freshly branded girls, many of them beautiful.
1
85
They were from the island city of Cos and had undoubtedly been captured at sea, their vessel burned and sunk.
1
86
Their considerable charms were fully revealed to the eye of appraising buyers who passed down the line.
1
87
The girls were chained throat to throat, their wrists locked behind the small of their backs with slave bracelets, and they knelt in the customary position of Pleasure Slaves.
The expeditions sent out from the cities are of course extremely well guarded, but pirates and outlaws too can band together in large numbers and sometimes, even more dangerously, one city's warriors, in force, will prey upon another city's caravans.
This, incidentally, is one of the more frequent causes of war among these cities.
The fact that warriors of one city sometimes wear the insignia of cities hostile to their own when they make these attacks further compounds the suspicions and internecine strife which afflicts the Gorean cities.
This chain of reflections was occasioned in my mind by sight of some men of Port Kar, a savage, coastal city on the Tamber Gulf, who were displaying a sullen chain of twenty freshly branded girls, many of them beautiful.
They were from the island city of Cos and had undoubtedly been captured at sea, their vessel burned and sunk.
Their considerable charms were fully revealed to the eye of appraising buyers who passed down the line.
The girls were chained throat to throat, their wrists locked behind the small of their backs with slave bracelets, and they knelt in the customary position of Pleasure Slaves.
- (Priest-Kings of Gor, Chapter )