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"Tor, lying at the northwest corner of the Tahari, is the principal supplying point for the scattered oasis communities of that dry vastness, almost
a continent of rock, and heat, and wind and sand."
Book 1, Tribesmen of Gor, page 36
"Tor was, as Gorean cities went, rich, trading city. It was headquarters for thousands of caravan merchants. In it, too, were housed many craftsmen,
practicing their industries, carvers, varnishers, table makers, gem cutters,jewelers, carders, dyers of cloth, weavers of rugs, tanners, makers of slippers,
toolers of leather, potters, glaziers, makers of cups and kettles, weapon smiths, and many others. Much of the city, of course, was organized to support
the caravan trade. There were many walled, guarded warehouses, requiring their staffs of scribes and guards, and, in hundreds of hovels, lived kaiila tenders,
drovers, and such, who would, at the caravan tables, when their moneys had been exhausted, apply, if accepted, making their mark on the roster, once more for a
post with some new caravan."
Book 1, Tribesmen of Gor, page 39
"Tor, rather similarly, though few crops were grown within its walls, was built high, about its water, several wells in the deepest area in the city. The
architecture of Tor, in concentric circles, broken by numerous, narrow, crooked streets, was a function of the radius from its wells. An advantage of this
municipal organization, of course, though it is scarcely a matter of intentional design, is that the water is in the most protected portion of the city, its
center. Tor's water, I might mention, was ample to her needs. Though I saw few of them, she boasted many shaded gardens. Water for these gardens, by contract
with slave masters, was carried by chains of male slaves and emptied into house cisterns, whence, later, by house slaves, it would be taken in cans and
sprinkled carefully, foot by foot, throughout the garden."
Book 1, Tribesmen of Gor, page 40
"I was later sold in Tor," she said, "far to the north of Turia."
Book 5, Assassin of Gor, page
"He might as well have used Tor, which is an oasis city in the deserts far below Ar, and to its
east."
Book 8, Hunters of Gor, page
"Tor, lying at the northwest corner of the Tahari, is the principal supplying point for the
scattered oasis communities of that dry vastness, almost a continent of rock, and heat, and wind and sand."
Book 10, Tribesmen of Gor, page 36
"Tor was, as Gorean cities went, rich, trading city. It was headquarters for thousands of caravan
merchants. In it, too, were housed many craftsmen, practicing their industries, carvers, varnishers, table makers, gem cutters, jewelers, carders, dyers of
cloth, weavers of rugs, tanners, makers of slippers, toolers of leather, potters, glaziers, makers of cups and kettles, weapon smiths, and many others.
Much of the city, of course, was organized to support the caravan trade. There were many walled, guarded warehouses, requiring their staffs of scribes and
guards, and, in hundreds of hovels, lived kaiila tenders, drovers, and such, who would, at the caravan tables, when their moneys had been exhausted, apply, if
accepted, making their mark on the roster, once more for a post with some new caravan."
Book 10, Tribesmen of Gor, page 39
"Tor, rather similarly, though few crops were grown within its walls, was built high, about its water,
several wells in the deepest area in the city. The architecture of Tor, in concentric circles, broken by numerous, narrow, crooked streets, was a function
of the radius from its wells. An advantage of this municipal organization, of course, though it is scarcely a matter of intentional design, is that the water
is in the most protected portion of the city, its center. Tor's water, I might mention, was ample to her needs. Though I saw few of them, she boasted many
shaded gardens. Water for these gardens, by contract with slave masters, was carried by chains of male slaves and emptied into house cisterns, whence, later,
by house slaves, it would be taken in cans and sprinkled carefully, foot by foot, throughout the garden."
Book 10, Tribesmen of Gor, page 40
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