Telnus:
The largest major city located on Cos, capitol city of the
Cos Ubarate.
The
Chatka and Curla is a large paga tavern in Telnus.
It was built on four levels. It has a large open court with
a wooden floor. There is an encircling dais, some twenty feet
deep, and over the dais are two encircling balconies, each
ten feet deep. The place is dimly lit by wagon lanterns, paneled
with red glass. They hang on chains from the ceilings and
balconies. Over one hundred slave girls work there and each
is garbed as a slave of the Wagon People. They all wear the
curla, chatka, kalmak and koora. The entire décor of
the tavern suggests the lands of the Wagon Peoples. There
are painted scenes of hunting, raiding, bosk herds, and the
city of Turia. The girls are taught to say to patrons "A
girl would rejoice if she were permitted to please you in
an alcove." Some patrons bring their own whips or quirts
to the tavern so the girls must ensure they do not offend
the patrons. Free women may come here, if they are escorted.
The tavern sometimes has dancers and they may be displayed
in the center of the red wooden floor within the painted yellow
ring of the slave circle. The tavern is not an open place
though so the girls cannot just leave it. Double iron gates
bar the entrance.
(Raiders
of Gor)
Some
four months ago I, in my swiftest ram-ship, accompanied by
my two other ram-ships, and escorted, as well, by five ram-ships
of the arsenal, heavy class, had come ot the vast, wall-encircled
harbors of Telnus, which is the
capitol city of the Ubarate of Cos. There are four major cities
on Cos, of which Telnus is the largest. The others are Selnar,
Temos and Jad.
Raiders of Gor..page 174
Slowly
the ship, like a sweet, fat bird, heavy and stately, began
to move toward the opening between the two high, round towers
that guard the entrance to the walled harbor of Telnus,
capito city of the island of Cos, seat of its Ubar’s
throne.
Raiders
of Gor...chapter 13, page 183
