Bosk Similiar to the yak or buffalo of Earth, this huge animal with its thick, humped neck and long, shaggy hair provides food, leather, milk and other essentials for the Wagon Peoples and Others of Gor.

"In several cases tarns have devoured their own masters, and it is not unusual for them, when loosed for feeding, to attack a human being with the same predatory zest they bestow on the yellow antelope, the tabuk, their favorite kill, or the ill- tempered, cumbersome bosk, a shaggy, long-haired wild ox of the Gorean plains." Book 2, Outlaw of Gor, page 45 "The Wagon Peoples grow no food, nor do they have manufacturing as we know it. They are herders, and it is said, killers. They eat nothing that has touched the dirt. They live on the meat and milk of the bosk. .... The bosk, without which the Wagon People could not live, is an oxlike creature. Its is huge shambling animal with a thick, humped neck and long shaggy hair. It has a wide head and tiny red eyes, a temper to match that of a sleen and two long, wicked horns that reach out from its head and suddenly curve forward to terminate in fearful points. Some of these horns, on the larger animals, measured from tip to tip, exceed the length of two spears. " Book 4, Nomads of Gor, page 4 - 5 ~才 "I heard the lowing of the milk bosk from among the wagons." Book 4, Nomads of Gor, page 27 ~才 "I sensed that once this man might have ridden six hundred pasangs in a day, living on a mouthful of water and a handful of bosk meat kept soft and warm between his saddle and the back of the kaiila;" Book 4, Nomads of Gor, page 43 ~才 "The Tarn Keeper...brought the food, bosk steak and yellow bread, peas and Torian olives, and two golden-brown, starchy Suls, broken open and filled with melted bosk cheese." Book 5, Assassin of Gor, page 168 ~才 "The bosk is a large, horned, shambling ruminant of the Gorean plains. It is herded below the Gorean equator by the Wagon Peoples, but there are Bosk herds on ranches in the north as well, and peasants often keep some of the animals." Book 6, Raiders of Gor, page 26 "I smelled roast bosk cooking, and fried vulo....I held the leg of the fried vulo toward one of the girls..." Book 8, Hunters of Gor, page 34 ~才 "There was a flash of slave bells at my side and a darkhaired, yellow-silked girl, a paga girl, knelt beside us, where we sat cross-legged behind the small table. 'Paga, Masters?' 'For three,' said I, expansively. 'And bring bread and bosk, and grapes.' 'Yes, Master.' " Book 8, Hunters of Gor, page 46 ~才 "Rim and Thurnock laughed. 'A thief,' said Thurnock, swallowing a mouthful of bosk and reaching for the paga goblet." Book 8, Hunters of Gor, page 47 "I saw four small milk bosk grazing on short grass. " Book 9, Marauders of Gor, page 81 "Many were the roast tarsk and roast bosk that had roasted over the long fire, on the iron spits. Splendid was the quality of the ale at the tables of the Blue Tooth. Sweet and strong was the mead." Book 9, Marauders of Gor, page 191 "He sat, cross-legged, behind the low table. On it were hot bread, yellow and fresh, hot black wine, steaming with its sugars, slices of roast bosk, the scrambled eggs of vulos, pastries with creams and custards." Book 12, Beasts of Gor, page 20 ~才 --At the Fair of En'Kara-in a public kittchen tent-- " 'Soup! Soup!" called a man. 'Soup!' I called, raising my hand. I purchased from him, for a copper tarsk, a bowl of soup, thick with shreds of hot bosk and porous chunks of boiled sul." Book 12, Beasts of Gor, page 51 ~才 "With a serving prong, she placed narrow strips of roast bosk and fried sul on my plate." Book 16, Guardsman of Gor, page 234 ~才

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Sausages

"There were several yards of sausages hung on hooks, numerous cannisters of flour, sugars, and salts; many smaller containers of spices and condiments." Book 5, Assassin of Gor, pages 271 ~才

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Sleen Stew

" 'Can you make a good sleen stew?' he asked. 'Yes, Master,' she said." Book 12, Beasts of Gor, page 427 ~才

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Tabuk A Gorean, single horned antelope. The northen Tabuk is bigger than the southern, both are known for their single horn and sweet meat.

"I thought of the yellow Gorean bread, baked in the shape of round, flat loaves, fresh and hot; my mouth watered for a tabuk steak...." Book 2, Outlaw of Gor, page 76 "They were northern tabuk, massive, tawny and swift; many of them ten hands at the shoulder, a quite different animal from the small, yellow-pelted antelope-like quadruped of the south. On the other hand, they too were distinguished by the single horn of the tabuk. On these animals, however, that object, in swirling ivory, was often, at its base, some two and one half inches in diameter, and better than a yard in length. A charging tabuk, because of the swiftness of its reflexes, is quite a dangerous animal. Usually they are killed from a distance, often from behind shields, with arrows." Book 12, Beasts of Gor, page 152 ~才 "At the end of the wall, Inmak wept, seeing the strewn fields of slaughtered tabuk. The fur and hide of the tabuk provides the red hunters not only with clothing, but it can also be used for blankets, sleeping bags and other articles. The hides can serve for harnesses for the snow sleen and their white skinned female beasts. Too, they may be used for buckets and tents, and for kayaks, the light narrow hunting canoes of skin from which sea mammals may be sought. Lashings, harpoon lines, cords and threads can be fashioned from its sinews. Carved, the bone and horn of the animal can function as arrow points, needles, thimbles, chisels, wedges, and knives. It's fat and bone marrow can be used as fuel. Too, almost all of the animal is edible. Even its eyes may be eaten and, from its stomach, the half-digested mosses on which it has been grazing." Book 12, Beasts of Gor, pages 169 - 170 ~才

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Tarsk Wild boar of the forests it has six tusks

"I thought of the yellow Gorean bread, baked in the shape of round, flat loaves, fresh and hot; my mouth watered for a tabuk steak or, perhaps, if I were lucky, a slice of roast tarsk, the formidable six tusked wild boar of Gor's temperate forests." Book 2, Outlaw of gor, page 76 "I had tarsk meat and yellow bread with honey, Gorean peas and a tankard of diluted Ka-la-na, warm water mixed with wine." Book 5, Assassin of Gor, page 87 ~才 - Tarl Cabot orders breakfast - " 'And put bread over the fire,' I said., 'and honey, and the eggs of vulos, and fried tarsk meat and a Torain larma fruit." Book 5, Assasin of Gor, page 107 ~才 "...poles of fish, plucked gants, slaughtered tarsks,..." Book 6, Raiders of Gor, page 41 "Before the feast I had helped the women, cleaning fish and dressing marsh gants, and then, later, turning spits for the roasted tarsks, roasted over rence-root fires, kept on metal pans, elevated above the rence of the islands by metal racks, themselves resting on larger pans." Book 6, Raiders of Gor, page 44 "I had carried about bowls of cut, fried fish, and wooden trays of roasted tarsk meat, and roasted gants, threaded on sticks, and rence cakes and porridges, and gourd flagons, many times replenished, of rence beer." Book 6, Raiders Gor, page 44 "Telima had prepared a roast tarsk, stuffed with suls and peppers from Tor." Book 6, Raiders of Gor, page 114 "The slave boy, Fish, had emerged from the kitchen, holding over his head on a large silver platter a whole roasted tarsk, steaming and crisped, basted, shining under the torch light, a larma in its mouth, garnished with suls and Tur-Pah." Book 6, Raiders of Gor, page 219 "Many were the roast tarsk and roast bosk that had roasted over the long fire, on the iron spits. Splendid was the quality of the ale at the tables of the Blue Tooth. Sweet and strong was the mead." Book 9, Marauders of Gor, page 191 "The tarn was ready. It was within the cot, tearing at a piece of meat, a haunch of tarsk, hung from a rope. The rope was some two inches thick. The suspension of the meat reminded me of the way peasant women sometimes cook roasts, tying them on a cord and dangling them, before a fire, then spinning the meat from time to time. In this way, given the twisting and untwisting of the cord, the meat will cook rather evenly, for the most part untended, and without spit turning." Book 23, Renegades of Gor page 120

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Verr A long-haired, spiral horned, Gorean mountain goat

"...perhaps after the agile and bellicose Gorean mountain goat, the long-haired, spiral horned verr." Book 01, Tarnsman of Gor, page 162 ~才 "...the shattered, slatted coops for vulos, the broken walls of keeps for the small, long-haired domestic verr, less belligerent and sizable than the wild verr of the Voltai ranges." Book 4, Nomads of Gor, page 10 ~才 "In the cafes I had feasted well. I had had verr meat, cut in chunks and threaded on a metal rod, with slices of peppers and larma, and roasted;..." Book 10, Tribesman of Gor, page 47 ~才 "Behind them came another of their caste, leading two milk verr which he had purchased." Book 12, Beasts of Gor, page 47 ~才 "The smell of fruit and vegetables, and verr milk was very strong." Book 17, Savages of Gor, page 60

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