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The Pani world was one of complex arrangements and degrees, and many proprieties, and formalities, at least to me, were mysterious. - (Mariners of Gor, Chapter 24, Sentence #13)

I had earlier shouldered a box, but one of the ship's Pani warned me to leave that for others. I gathered we were armsmen, and not the bearers of burdens. Perhaps Lord Temmu wished it to be clear that warriors had landed, and not porters. The Pani world was one of complex arrangements and degrees, and many proprieties, and formalities, at least to me, were mysterious. Whereas all natural societies are characterized by rank, distance, and hierarchy, acknowledged or not, I think there is no Gorean caste, from the highest to the lowest, which does not regard itself as the equal or superior, in one way or another, to that of every other. Where would society be without the Builders, the Merchants, the Metal Workers, the Cloth Workers, the Wood Workers, the Leather Workers, the Peasant, with the great bow, the ox on whom the Home Stone rests? The trail upward was steep. I was with the second contingent landed, some two hundred men, making its way down the ropes and rail nets. - (Mariners of Gor)