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UBAR ZEUSS (SILVER WOLF)
In the past months I had made my way, afoot, overland, across the equator, living by hunting and occasional service in the
caravans of merchants, from the northern to the southern hemisphere of Gor. I had left the vicinity of the Sardar Range in
the month of Se'Var, which in the northern hemisphere is a winter month, and had journeyed south for months; and had now come
to what some call the Plains of Turia, to others the Land of the Wagon Peoples, in the autumn of this hemisphere; there is,
due apparently to the balance of land and water mass on Gor, no particular moderation of seasonal variations either in the
northern or southern hemisphere; nothing much, so to speak, to choose between them; on the other hand, Gor's temperatures,
on the whole, tend to be somewhat fiercer than those of Earth, perhaps largely due to the fact of the wind-swept expanses
of her gigantic land masses; indeed, though Gor is smaller than earth, with consequent gravitational reduction, her actual
land areas may be, for all I know, more extensive than those of my native planet; the area of Gor which are mapped are large,
but only a small fraction of the surface of the planet; much of Gor remains to her inhabitants, simply terre incognita.
Nomads of Gor pages 2-3
From where she knelt she could see the low hanging tharlarion oil lamps of the main portion of the paga tavern, the men, the
girls in silk who, in a moment, belled, would move amoung them, replenishing the paga. In the center of the tables, under
a hanging lamp, there was a square area, recessed, filled with sand, in which men might fight or girls dance. Beyond the area
of the sand and the many tables there was a high wall, some forty feet or so high, in which there were four levels, each containing
seven small curtained alcoves, the entrances to which were circular, with a diameter of about twenty four inches. Seven narrow
ladders, each about eight inches in width, fixed into the wall, gave access to these alcoves.
"Only the span of the wings of my tarn, only the girth of my tharlarion, only the width of my body, and no more and that
but for the time it takes to pass"
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