Book 10. (7 results) Tribesmen of Gor (Context Quote)
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Quote
7
328
I said nothing.
7
329
"And should you be so unfortunate," said he, "as to reach the vicinity of Klima, your feet must be bound with leather to your knees, for you will sink through the salt crusts to your knees, and, unprotected, your flesh, by the millions of tiny, heated crystals, would be grated and burned from your bones".
7
330
I looked away, in the chains.
7
331
"In the pits," he said, "you pump water through underground deposits, to wash salt, with the water, to the surface, and repump again the same water.
7
332
Men die at the pumps, in the heat.
7
333
Others, the carriers, in the brine, must fill their yoke buckets with the erupted sludge, and carry it from the pits to the drying tables; others must gather the salt and mold it into cylinders".
7
334
He smiled.
I said nothing.
"And should you be so unfortunate," said he, "as to reach the vicinity of Klima, your feet must be bound with leather to your knees, for you will sink through the salt crusts to your knees, and, unprotected, your flesh, by the millions of tiny, heated crystals, would be grated and burned from your bones".
I looked away, in the chains.
"In the pits," he said, "you pump water through underground deposits, to wash salt, with the water, to the surface, and repump again the same water.
Men die at the pumps, in the heat.
Others, the carriers, in the brine, must fill their yoke buckets with the erupted sludge, and carry it from the pits to the drying tables; others must gather the salt and mold it into cylinders".
He smiled.
- (Tribesmen of Gor, Chapter )