"The blond haired barbarian looked across the deck to Sasi.
"Mistress," she whispered to Sasi, who stood to her as first girl.
"Yes, Slave," said Sasi.
The blond lifted her bound wrists, the line running up to the golden ring in the left ear of the kailiauk head, through it, and back to the deck. "Why are we bound like this?" she asked.
"Do you not know, you little fool?" asked Sasi. I smiled, for Sasi was actually a bit shorter than the blond girl. I would have guessed they would have weighed about the same. Sasi may have weighed a little more. Neither was a large girl.
"No, Mistress," said the blond haired girl. She was deferential to Sasi. If she had not been, she might have been whipped to within an inch of her life. "Rejoice," said Sasi. "You have been found beautiful enough to be put at the prow."
Explorers of Gor pg 110

"Put them to prow!" called Ulafi.
Two seamen came to assist Shoka.
We were now some two passangs out of Schendi. The traffic was heavier.
Shoka lifted up the blond girl, easily, in his arms. She was firghtened. The line on her wrists went to, and through, the golden ring in the left ear of the kailiauk head at the prow of the Palms of Schendi. It then, from the ring, returned to the deck. The two seamen then held the line at the deck. Shoka then threw the girl over the bow. She cried out with misery but, in a moment, swung from the tether, through the ring, fastened to her wrists. At Shoka's direction she was drawn up until she hung, her wrists over her head, about a foot below the golden ring."
Explorers of Gor pg 113-114

(as they docked and the ship was being inspected the girls still hung at the prow)

"Two slave girls, white, barefoot, in ragged brown tunics, with golden rings in their ears, one chewing on a larma, came to stand on the wharf near the prow. "How ugly you are!" called up one of them to the girls at the rings. "Have you ever been put at the prow?" called Sasi back to them, unhesitatingly."
Explorers of Gor, page 118

"You are both homely, poor slaves!" called up one of the girls.
"You are homely, poor slaves, not we!" said Sasi. "We are at the prow!" She looked at them angrily. "Were you ever at the prow?"
Explorers of Gor, page 118

"The blond-haired girl looked at me, and then looked away. I was pleased. I could see how proud she was to have been found beautiful enough to be put at the prow of a Gorean ship. Perhaps for the first time she was beginning to sense how lovely she truly was."
Explorers of Gor, page 119