Line #17 Quotes/SlaveGalley


1	->"We pulled for you when the wind was against us and the sails were low.\
2	Will you never let us go?\
3	We ate bread and onions when you took towns or ran aboard quickly when\
4	you were beaten back by the foe,\
5	The captains walked up and down the deck in fair weather singing songs,\
6	but we were below,\
7	We fainted with our chins on the oars and you did not see that we were\
8	idle for we still swung to and fro.\
9	Will you never let us go?\
10
11	->The salt made the oar bandies like sharkskin; our knees were cut to the\
12	bone with salt cracks; our hair was stuck to our foreheads; and our lips\
13	were cut to our gums and you whipped us because we could not row,\
14	Will you never let us go?\
15
16	->But in a little time we shall run out of the portholes as the water runs\
17	along the oarblade, and though you tell the others to row after us you\
18	will never catch us till you catch the oar-thresh and tie up the winds in\
19	the belly of the sail. Aho!\
20	Will you never let us go?"\
21
22	-->-- '''Rudyard Kipling''' from "The Finest Story in the World"
23
24	->''Pulling the weight up against the wind\
25	is the plight of the galley slave\
26	Chained to this cold bench, six to the oar\
27	Sentenced to an early grave''
28	-->-- '''Music/{{Accept}}''', "The Galley"
29
30	->Mr. Mathews! Mr. Mathews! I just came back from the restroom and Hodges here took my seat! It's my turn for the window seat, Mr. Mathews!
31	-->-- ''ComicStrip/TheFarSide''
32
33	->'''Don Lope (to the people in the hold of a Turkish ship):''' Olà, amigos! We are Christians like you, we've come to free you!\
34	'''Armand:''' This is a xebec, Don Lope. A xebec is a sailing ship.\
35	'''Don Lope:''' Then these men are not Christian slaves...\
36	'''Armand:''' No.\
37	'''Don Lope:''' ... but rather Turkish sailors?\
38	'''Sailors:''' Yes!\
39	-cut to Don Lope running for his life-
40	-->''ComicBook/DeCapeEtDeCrocs''
41
42	->'''GALLEY SLAVE.''' The only opportunity, if you are a man, of reaching any of the OFFSHORE ISLANDS is to become a Galley Slave. It is one of the two main occupations open to you once you are enslaved (see also GLADIATOR). You will be captured and sold into slavery on an average halfway through the Tour and will then very shortly find yourself chained to a bench belowdecks (''noisome'' (OMT)) and probably to a large heavy oar too. (There is no toilet provided, hence the OMT.) You have to sit there all the time, even when the Galley is under sail. You will be given just enough food and drink to keep you alive. There will be an overseer (''brutal'' (OMT)) who will encourage you with a large leather whip, as well as someone else to beat time as you row. You will find it hard work. You will acquire blisters and scars as well as muscles. But do not despair. Next to you on the bench there will be a future friend, generally of giant stature, and, as soon as your muscles are properly hardened, you will be able to cut your chains and, with the help of this LARGE MAN, slaughter your employers and leap overboard. You may then have to swim some way to an island. If you are lucky, a SEA MONSTER will arise from the deep and offer you a lift, but even without this help you will reach land in a day or so. In some cases, you may find that you have not reached an island at all, but some other land. This will be the OTHER CONTINENT and the Tour will proceed as normal there.
43	-->--''Literature/TheToughGuideToFantasyland''

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