The town of Kassau, on Gor

Kassau is a town on the northern edge of the northern forests
The High Initiate of Kassau, a town at the northern brink of the forest...
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Dirt streets
The High Initiate then began to intone a complex prayer in archaic Gorean to which, at intervals, responses were made by the assembled initiates, those within the railing initially and now, too, the twelve, still carrying candles, who had accompanied the body from the ship through the dirt streets of Kassau, among the wooden buildings, to the temple.
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Kassau is a town of wood
Temple is greatest building, towering over the crowded town of many huts as well as stabler homes of merchants
Kassau is a town of wood, and the temple is the greatest building in the town, It towers far above the squalid huts, and stabler homes of merchants, which crowd about it.

Kassau is surrounded by a wall of sharpened logs, defended by a catwalk
There are two gates - large gate faces inlet, leading in from Thassa
Small gate leads to the forest behind Kassau
Too, the town is surrounded by a wall, with two gates, one large, facing the inlet, leading in from Thassa, the other small, leading to the forest behind the town. The wall is of sharpened logs, and is defended by a catwalk.

Main business in Kassau is trade, lumber and fishing
Great numbers of striped parsit fish are taken in spring and fall
Kassau has fish-drying sheds
The main business of Kassau is trade, lumber and fishing. The slender striped parsit fish has vast plankton banks north of the town, and may there, particularly in the spring and the fall, be taken in great numbers. The smell of the fish-drying sheds of Kassau carries far out to sea.

Trade is largely getting furs from the north (Torvaldsland), in exchange for weapons, iron bars, salt & luxury items
These items usually brought to Kassau from the south
The trade is largely in furs from the north, exchanged for weapons, iron bars, salt and luxury goods, such as jewellery and silk, from the south, usually brought to Kassau from Lydius by ten-oared coasting vessel.

Lumber is a valuable commodity, milled in Kassau and taken to Torvaldsland
Lumber, of course, is a valuable commodity. It is generally milled and taken northward. Torvaldsland, though not treeless, is bleak. In it, fine Ka-la-na wood, for example, and supple temwood, cannot grow. These two woods are prized in the north. A hall built with Ka-la-na wood, for example, is thought a great luxury. Such halls, incidentally, are often adorned with rich carvings. The men of Torvaldsland are skilled with their hands.

Kassau trades the furs of Torvaldsland with those of the south
Barrels of smoked dried fish are traded with those of the south
Trade to the south, of course is largely in furs acquired from Torvaldsland, and in barrels of smoked, dried parsit fish. From the south, of course, the people of Kassau obtain the goods they trade northward to Torvaldsland and, too, of course, civilised goods for themselves.

Population of Kassau is about 1100 people
Surrounding villages use Kassau as their market and meeting place, totaling 2300 people altogether
The population of Kassau I did not think to be more than eleven hundred persons. There are villages about, however, which use Kassau as their market and meeting place. If we count these perhaps we might think of greater Kassau as having a population in the neighbourhood of some twenty-three hundred persons.

Kassau is the seat of the High Initiate of the north
The most important thing about Kassau, however, was that it was the seat of the High Initiate of the north. It was, accordingly, the spiritual centre of a district extending for hundreds of pasangs around. The nearest High Initiate to Kassau was hundreds of pasangs south in Lydius.
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Most of the people seem poor
Fishermen, Sawyer, Porters, Peasants
Most wear simple garments of plain wool or rep cloth
The feet of many are bound in skins
Backs bowed, eyes vacant
I looked about myself. Most of the people seemed poor, fishermen, sawyers, porters, peasants. Most wore simple garments of plain wool, or even rep-cloth. The feet of many were bound in skins. Their backs were often bowed, their eyes vacant.
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Burghers of Kassau, men of means, pillars of the town
In the crowd, with the poor, were many burghers of Kassau, stout men of means, the pillars of the town, with their families. Several of these stood on raised platforms, on the right, near the front of the temple. I understood these places to be reserved for dignitaries, men of substance and their families.
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Burgher wearing black satin, a silver chain around his neck
"Kneel beneath the ax!" cried out one of the burghers of Kassau, who wore black satin, a silver chain about his neck. I gathered he might be administrator in this town.
The people, obediently, began to kneel on the dirt floor of the temple, their heads down.
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Daughter of rich merchant is well dressed
Hair in a snood of scarlet yarn with golden wire
Cape of white fur, scarlet vest embroidered in gold
Blouse of white wool, long woolen skirt dyed red
Black belt with gold buckle
Polished leather shoes
Near her, bored, was a slender, blondish girl, looking about. Her hair was hung in a snood of scarlet yarn, bound with filaments of golden wire. She wore, over her shoulder, a cape of white fur of the northern sea sleen. She had a scarlet vest, embroidered in gold, worn over a long-sleeved blouse of white wool, from distant Ar. She wore, too, a log woolen skirt, dyed red, which was belted with black, with a buckle of gold, wrought in Cos. She wore shoes of black polished leather, which folded about her ankles, laced twice, once across the instep, once about the ankle.
She saw me regarding her with interest, and looked away.
Other wenches, too, were in the crowd. In the northern villages, and in the forest towns, and northward on the coast the woman do not veil themselves, as is common in the cities to the south.
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I looked again upon the slender, blondish girl, bored in the crowd. Again she looked at me, and looked away. She was richly dressed. The cape of white fur was a splendid fur. The scarlet vest, the blouse of white wool, the long woolen skirt, red, were fine goods. The buckle from Cos was expensive. Even the shoes of black leather were finely tooled. I supposed her the daughter of a rich merchant. There were other good looking wenches, too, in the crowd, generally blond girls, as are most of the northern girls, many with braided hair. They were in festival finery. This was holiday in Kassau.
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Another well-dressed daught of rich man in Kassau
Full ankle-length gown of black velvet with silver straps, crossed over breasts and tied about the waist
Hair held back in comb of bone and leather
Cloak of black fur swirling to ankles, fastened by silver brooch
She was a tall, statuesque girl, lofty and proud, grey-eyed. She wore black and silver, a full, ankle-length gown of rich, black velvet, with silver belts, or straps, that crossed over her breasts, and tied about her waist. From it, by strings, hung a silver purse, that seemed weighty. Her blond hair was lifted from the sides and back of her head by a comb of bone and leather, like an inverted isosceles triangle, the comb fastened by a tiny black ribbon about her neck and another such ribbon about her forehead. Her cloak, of black fur, , from the black sea sleen, glossy and deep, swirled to her ankles. It was fastened by a large circular brooch of silver, probably from Tharna. She was doubtless the daughter of a very rich man. She would have many suitors.
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