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Turmus was the last major river port on the Vosk before the almost impassable marshes of the delta. - (Explorers of Gor, Chapter 1, Sentence #202)

"I had been taught that," I said. "We now know that the Thassa Cartius and the subequatorial Cartius are not the same river". "It had been thought, and shown on many maps," I said, "that the subequatorial Cartius not only flowed into Lake Ushindi, but emerged northward, traversing the sloping western flatlands to join the Vosk at Turmus". Turmus was the last major river port on the Vosk before the almost impassable marshes of the delta. "Calculations performed by the black geographer, Ramani, of the island of Anango, suggested that given the elevations involved the two rivers could not be the same. His pupil, Shaba, was the first civilized man to circumnavigate Lake Ushindi. He discovered that the Cartius, as was known, enters Lake Ushindi, but that only two rivers flow out of Ushindi, the Kamba and Nyoka. - (Explorers of Gor)