“Her father had refused to sell the shop to Saphrar's agents, and take his employment under the merchant. Shortly thereafter, some seven or eight ruffians, armed with clubs and iron bars, had attacked the shop, destroying its equipment. In attempting to defend against this attack both her father and her two older brothers had been beaten to death”. Nomads of Gor, page 237
There must have been two hundred or more peasants, men, children, and women, all shouting, and beating on their kettles and pans. The women and children carried sticks and switches, the men spears, flails, forks and clubs. They were too close together, there were too many of them! A child saw me and he cried out and began to beat more loudly on his pan. Captive of Gor, page 249