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What captain does not wish to be underestimated by the enemy? It seemed likely to me, of course, that he and the governor were enleagued, and that both profited from the depredations of the false Bosk of Port Kar. - (Avengers of Gor, Chapter 21, Sentence #81)

It seemed clear to me that Nicomachos did not think highly of the governor. That much seemed to me authentic. On the other hand, I thought it likely that he, in his hostility, far underestimated the shrewdness, the subtlety, the depth, mind, and energy, of the governor. What captain does not wish to be underestimated by the enemy? It seemed likely to me, of course, that he and the governor were enleagued, and that both profited from the depredations of the false Bosk of Port Kar. Did not the fleet of the Farther Islands seem inert much of the time, and had not its searches for the raiders proved invariably futile? Few thieves arrest themselves. Surely Nicomachos and Archelaos were colleagues in crime. "In Sybaris," I said, "I urged the surveillance of the tavern, The Living Island, the proprietor of which is a man named Glaukos. - (Avengers of Gor)