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10 Tribesmen of Gor


Tribesmen of Gor
John Norman
Chronicles of Counter-Earth Volume 10

1 The Hall of Samos
There were bells, three rows of them, small and golden, thonged tightly about the
girlтАЩs left ankle.
The entire floor of the chamber, shining, richly mosaiced, broad, reflecting the
torchlight, was a map.
I watched the girl. Her knees were slightly bent. Her weight was on her heels,
freeing her hips. Her rib cage was lifted, but her shoulders, relaxed, were down.
Her abdominal muscles, too were relaxed. Loose. Her chin was lifted, haughtily.
She did not deign to look at us. Dark hair flowed behind her.
тАЬThere are many things I do not understand,тАЭ said Samos to me. I reached for a
slice of larma fruit and bit through it. тАЬYet,тАЭ said Samos, тАЬI think it is important
that we come to the truth in this matter.тАЭ
I regarded the vast map on the floor of the chamber. I could see, high on the map,
Ax Glacier, Torvaldsland, and Hinjer and Skjern, and Helmutsport, and lower,
Kassau and the great green forests, and the river Laurius, and Laura and Lydius,
and lower, the islands, prominent among them Cos and Tyros; I saw the delta of
Vosk, and Port Kar, and, inland, Ko-ro-ba, the Towers of the Morning, and
Thentis, in the mountains of Thentis, famed for her tarn flocks; and, to the south,
among many other cities, Tharna, of the vast silver mines; I saw the Voltai Range,
and Glorious Ar, and the Cartius, and, far to the south, Turia, and near the shore of
Thassa, the islands of Anango and Ianda, and on the coast, the free ports of
Schendi and Bazi. There were, on the map, hundreds of cities, and promontories
and peninsulas, and rivers and inland lakes and seas.
The left ankle of the girl, under the bells, the brown thong, the golden metal, was
tanned.
тАЬPerhaps you are mistaken,тАЭ I told him. тАЬPerhaps there is nothing to it.тАЭ
тАЬPerhaps,тАЭ he smiled.
At the corners of the room, helmeted, with spears, stood men-at-arms.
The girl wore Gorean dancing silk. It hung low upon her bared hips, and fell to her

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ankles. It was scarlet, diaphanous. A front corner of the silk was taken behind her
and thrust loose and draped, into the rolled silk knotted about her hips; loosely,
draped, into the rolled silk at her right hip. Low on her hips she wore a belt of
small denomination, threaded, overlapping golden coins. A veil concealed her
muchly from us, it thrust into the strap of the coined halter at her left shoulder, and
into the coined belt at her right hip. On her arms she wore numerous armlets and
bracelets. On the thumb and first finger of both her left and right hand were golden
finger cymbals. On her throat was a collar.
I took another piece of larma fruit. тАЬI gather,тАЭ I said, тАЬyou have information?тАЭ