- Are part of the Low Castes.
- Their colors are Black and Brown.
"I had scarcely stepped from the stones of the road, when, coming down the road, each step carefully measured and solid, I saw a wide, hunched figure, bending under a gigantic bundle of sticks, strapped to his back by two cords which he held twisted in his fists in front of his body. His stature and burden proclaimed him a member of the caste of Carriers of Wood, or Woodsmen, that gorean caste which, with the caste of Charcoal Makers, provides most of the fuel for the Gorean cities. The weight the man was carrying was prodigious, and would have staggered men of most castes, even that of the warriors. The bundle reared itself at least a mans height above his bent back, and extended perhaps some four feet in width. I knew the support of that weight depended partly on the the skillful use of cords and back, but sheer strength was only to obviously necessary, and this man, and his caste brothers, over the generations, had been shaped to their task. Lesser men had turned outlaw or died. In rare cases, one might have been permitted by the Council of High Caste to raise caste. None of course would accept a lower caste, and there were lower castes, the caste of Peasants for example, the most basic Caste of all Gor. The man approached more closely. His eyes were almost covered with a white, shaggy, inverted bowl of hair, matted with twigs and leaves. The whiskers had been scraped from his face, probably by the broad. double headed wood ax bound on the top of the bundle. He wore the short, tattered sleeveless robe of his trade, with its leather back and shoulders. His feet were bare, and black to the ankles. I had moved but a few steps when his voice arrested me. It was hard to understand the words, for those of the lonely Caste of woodsman do not often speak."
Book 2, Outlaw of Gor, page 27
"I supposed Zosk the Woodsman was proud in the knowledge that he with his great broad-headed ax could fell a tree in one blow, and that perhaps not even a Ubar could do as much."
Book 2, Outlaw of Gor, page 66
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