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Bazi
"My
four commercial voyages had been among the exchange islands, or free
islands, in Thassa, administered as free ports by members of the
Merchants. There were several such islands. Three, which I encountereed
frequently in my voyages, were Teletus, and, south of it, Tabor, named
for the drum, which it resembles, and to the north, among the northern
islands, Scagnar. Others were Farnacium, Hulneth and Asperiche. I did
not go as far south as Anango or Ianda, or as far north as Hunjer or
Skjern, west of Torvaldsland. There islands, with occasional free ports
on the coast, north and south of the Gorean equator, such as Lydius and
Helmutsport, and Schendi and Bazi, make possible the commerce between
Cos and Tyros, and the mainland, and its cities, such as Ko-ro-ba,
Thentis, Tor, Ar, Turia, and many others."
Raiders of Gor - pages 137-138
Barrens, Region of
At the edge of the Thentis mountains, in the driest areas, the grass is
short. As one moves in an easterly direction it becomes taller, ranging
generally from ten to eighteen inches in height; as one moves even
further east it can attain a height of several feet, reaching as high as
the knees of a man riding a kaiila. On foot, it is easier to become lost
in such grass than in the northern forests. No white man, incidentally,
at least as far as I know, has ever penetrated to the eastern edge of
the Barrens. Certainly, as far as I know, none has ever returned from
that area. Their extent, accordingly, is not known.
Savages of Gor, page 65
Besnit
A
war which the motivation, again, was almost solely the acquistion of
slaves. It had concluded, with a practical victory for Horfax. Bisnit,
her walls breeched, had been forced to surrender her slaves and a
selection of her high caste daughters to be made slaves, and trained
under the women who had formerly been slaves in their own houses. Years
later the two cities become allies.
Vagabonds of Gor page 273
Brundisium
I understood that Brundisium was one
of the largest and busiest ports of this world. It was a commercial
metropolis of sorts....Dancer of Gor Pg 147
She stood not more than a hundred
yards from the gate of Tesius, in the city of Samnium, some two hundred
pasangs east and a bit south of Brundisium, both cities continental
allies of the island ubarate of Cos.... Mercenaries of Gor Pg 9
I shrugged. Much of Gor was
terra incognita. Few knew well the lands on the east of the Voltai and Thentis
ranges, for example, or what lay west of the farther islands, near Cos and
Tyros. It was more irritating, of course, to realize that even considerable
areas of territory above Schendi, south of the Vosk, and west of Ar, were
unknown. Explorers of Gor Pg 16 |
