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Book 1. (9 results) Tarnsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	92	I caught a glimpse of a black helmet through the port as a warrior, still clutching a crossbow and mounted on his tarn, hauled up on the one-strap and flew from the window.	10
9	1	Kazrak of Port Kar We traveled together through the night, making our way through the silvery yellow fields of Sa-Tarna, fugitives under the three moons of Gor.	10
9	102	"I am Kazrak of Port Kar," he said, "in the service of Mintar, of the Merchant Caste".	10
9	103	I did not need to ask about Port Kar.	10
9	150	Kazrak of Port Kar was a superb swordsman, but in the first moments we both knew that I was his master.	10
10	13	"So," said the merchant, "Kazrak of Port Kar has met his match?" "It is the first challenge I have ever lost," replied Kazrak proudly.	10
10	24	One of the mounted warriors said, "Kazrak of Port Kar is the best sword in the caravan".	10
10	34	"Her sale price would not bring half the hiring price of a sword such as that of Kazrak of Port Kar".	10
10	40	"Kazrak of Port Kar," said Mintar, "do you agree to surrender the balance of your hiring price to Tarl of Bristol if he takes your place in my service?" "Yes," responded Kazrak.	10

Book 2. (5 results) Outlaw of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
5	4	Ko-ro-ba was not set as high and remote as, for example, was Thentis in the mountains of Thentis, famed for its tarn flocks, but it was not a city of the vast plains either, like the luxurious metropolis of Ar, or of the shore, like the cluttered, crowded, sensuous Port Kar on the Tamber Gulf.	10
5	5	Whereas Ar was glorious, a city of imposing grandeur, that acknowledged even by its blood foes; whereas Thentis had the proud violence of the rude mountains of Thentis for its setting; whereas Port Kar could boast the broad Tamber for its sister, and the gleaming, mysterious Thassa beyond, I thought...	10
18	175	We worked on them, bending over them in the darkness, I and three men from Port Kar, who understood what must be done.	10
21	229	And many of the cities of Gor were represented on that chain, sometimes spoken of as the Slaver's Necklace—there was a blond girl from lofty Thentis, a dark-skinned girl with black hair that fell to her ankles from the desert city of Tor, girls from the miserable streets of Port Kar in the de...	10
26	42	It is perhaps a small thing to see on the belt of an artisan a silver buckle of the style worn in mountainous Thentis or to note the delicacy of dried eels from Port Kar in the marketplace, but these things, small though they are, speak to me of a new Tharna.	10

Book 3. (13 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	19	If they were indeed Ta grapes I supposed they must have come by galley from Cos to Port Kar, and from Port Kar to the Fair of En'Kara.	10
1	65	These contests, it might be mentioned, were banned in Ar when Kazrak of Port Kar became administrator of that city.	10
1	84	This chain of reflections was occasioned in my mind by sight of some men of Port Kar, a savage, coastal city on the Tamber Gulf, who were displaying a sullen chain of twenty freshly branded girls, many of them beautiful.	10
1	88	When a possible buyer would stop in front of one, one of the bearded scoundrels from Port Kar would poke her with a slave whip and she would lift her head and numbly repeat the ritual phrase of the inspected slave girl: Buy me, Master.	10
6	17	The grapes were purple and, I suppose, Ta grapes from the lower vineyards of the terraced island of Cos some four hundred pasangs from Port Kar.	10
6	20	Port Kar and Cos are hereditary enemies, but such traditions would not be likely to preclude some profitable smuggling.	10
7	43	It is the common property of the Administrator of Ar, a herdsman beside the Vosk, a peasant from Tor, a scribe from Thentis, a metal worker from Tharna, a physician from Cos, a pirate from Port Kar, a warrior from Ko-ro-ba.	10
8	153	The results of these raids might be returned to Treve or sold, perhaps even at the Fair of En'Kara, or another of the four great Sardar Fairs, or, if not, they could always be disposed of easily without question in distant, crowded, malignant Port Kar.	10
29	96	The silver tube still lay intact in the firing port but its power was so considerably reduced that it was no longer a menace to the ships of Sarm.	10
29	116	Then without warning it seemed the stern of my craft vanished and I felt the deck suddenly give way and as half of the craft vanished in powder and the other half crumbled to the buildings below I seized the silver tube from the firing port and leaped downward to the back of the enemy ship.	10
29	155	Once I bumped the craft rather severely into the wall of the complex and I could see the explosion of an energy bulb outside through my makeshift port, but I soon managed to bring the ship down safely.	10
33	42	There were men in that crowd from Ar, from Thentis, from Tharna, recognized by the two yellow cords in their belt; from Port Kar; from Tor, Cos, Tyros; perhaps from Treve, Vika's home city; perhaps even from fallen, vanished Ko-ro-ba; and the men in that crowd were of all castes, and even of castes ...	10
34	202	Systematically and persistently I questioned these men of various cities about the whereabouts of Talena of Ar, hoping to find some clue that might lead me to her, even if it might be only the drunken memory of some herdsman of a vision of beauty once encountered in a dim and crowded tavern in Cos o...	10

Book 4. (26 results) Nomads of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
7	155	I suppose, in itself, this meant nothing, but I naturally thought of Port Kar, malignant, squalid Port Kar, which claims suzerainty over the delta, exacting cruel tributes from the rence growers, great stocks of rence paper for trade, sons for oarsmen in cargo galleys, daughters for Pleasure Slaves ...	10
9	27	"How is it," I asked, "that here in Turia you can serve the livers of wingfish?" "I have a war galley in Port Kar," said Saphrar the merchant, "which I send to Cos twice a year for the fish".	10
9	32	I have heard, though, there is a Caste of Thieves in Port Kar, a strong caste which naturally protects its members from such indignities as ear notching.	10
9	37	"How is it," I asked, "that a merchant of Turia has a war galley in Port Kar?" Saphrar reclined on the yellow cushions, behind the low table covered with wines, fruits and golden dishes heaped with delicate viands.	10
9	38	"I did not realize Port Kar was on friendly terms with any of the inland cities," I said.	10
10	302	I hauled Kamchak out of the wagon before he began to bid on a chained-up little wench from Port Kar who had taken his eye.	10
10	455	The important point, however, in the circumstances was that Kamras had proposed the sword as the weapon of his encounter with Kamchak, and poor Kamchak was almost certain to be as unfamiliar with the sword as you or I would be with any of the more unusual weapons of Gor, say, the whip knife of Port ...	10
12	38	The little wench from Port Kar, whom Kamchak and I had seen in the slave wagon when we had bought paga the night before the games of Love War, was this night to perform the chain dance.	10
12	45	I gathered that the little wench from Port Kar must be superb.	10
12	74	"Master," said Aphris, "is taking us tonight to see a Chain Dance, a girl from Port Kar".	10
12	79	I didn't really feel like telling Elizabeth that no one ever feels sorry for a wench from Port Kar.	10
12	414	Then with a suddenness that almost made me jump and the crowd cry out with delight the music began again but this time as a barbaric cry of rebellion and rage and the wench from Port Kar was suddenly a chained she-larl biting and tearing at the chain and she had cast her black robes from her and sto...	10
16	172	"Tuchuk sleen!" "May I introduce," inquired Saphrar, "Ha-Keel of Port Kar, chief of the mercenary tarnsmen".	10
16	178	"How is it," I asked, "that Ha-Keel of Port Kar wears about his neck a tarn disk from the city of Ar?" "I was once of Ar," said scarred Ha-Keel.	10
16	193	"Ha-Keel," said Saphrar, "wisely went to the city of Port Kar, whose hospitality to such as he is well known.	10
16	203	I found my way to Port Kar, where I lived unpleasantly for some time on garbage floating in the canals and such other tidbits as I could find about".	10
16	214	"I think—" he said, "Port Kar".	10
16	216	Though raised in Tyros and successful in Turia, Saphrar the merchant thought of himself as one of Port Kar.	10
16	218	"That explains," I said, "how it is that you, though in Turia, can have a galley in Port Kar".	10
16	220	"Also," I cried, suddenly aware, "the rence paper in the message collar, paper from Port Kar!" "Of course," he said.	10
16	329	And then, one day, like the pirates of Port Kar in their long galleys, unannounced, unexpected, Others would cross the seas of space and bring their craft to rest on the shores and sands of Gor.	10
17	32	This reasoning also led me to suppose that it would not be likely to be anything like a water sleen or a giant urt from the canals of Port Kar.	10
19	96	Her skin color was tannish, not too unlike the girl I had seen from Port Kar.	10
22	9	The compound of the House of Saphrar, however, had not fallen, protected by its numerous guardsmen and its high walls, nor had the tower elsewhere that sheltered the tarn cots and warriors of Ha-Keel, the mercenary from Port Kar.	10
26	56	"The thousand tarnsmen of Ha-Keel," said Harold, "left before dawn for Port Kar.	10
26	156	Sitting in the place of honor, cross-legged, calm, on the merchant's cushions, on his personal dais, applying a bit of oil to the blade of his sword, sat the lean, scarred Ha-Keel, once of Ar, now a mercenary tarnsman of squalid, malignant Port Kar.	10

Book 5. (71 results) Assassin of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
19	146	Slave girls who escape masters or some free women, who will not accept the matches arranged by their parents, or reject the culture of Gor, occasionally flee to these forests and live together in bands, building shelters, hunting their food, and hating men; there are occasional clashes between these...	10
19	328	"Surely Samos of Port Kar, First Slaver of Gor's Tatrix of the Sea, noble Port Kar, cares to express interest in these unworthy wenches?" There was silence.	10
24	302	"Samos of Port Kar is an agent of Priest-Kings, their agent in Port Kar".	10
2	7	Pa-Kur's horde had been defeated by an alliance of free cities, led by Ko-ro-ba and Thentis, under the command of Matthew Cabot of Ko-ro-ba, the father of Tarl of Bristol, and Kazrak of Port Kar, sword brother of the same Warrior.	10
2	176	"It has been hard in Ar," said the man, "since the deposition of Kazrak of Port Kar as Administrator of the City, and since the murder of Om, the High Initiate of the City".	10
2	188	And since Kazrak was originally, perhaps surprisingly, of Port Kar, a city not on particularly good terms with Ar, or any other Gorean city, there was the hint of sedition in such matters.	10
2	191	Accordingly, Kazrak of Port Kar, for years Administrator of Ar, was by vote deposed and banished from the city, being publicly denied salt, bread and fire, as had been Marlenus, long years before him, once Ubar of Ar.	10
4	95	"Further," I pointed out, "now that Kazrak of Port Kar is no longer Administrator of Ar it seemed unlikely that Ar would welcome Koroban Warriors within her walls".	10
4	188	"I am only a girl from the islands north of Cos, taken by pirates of Port Kar, sold to a tarnsman, carried to and sold again in the city of Turia, and hence for twenty boskhides traded to the Tuchuks, where I was ringed and branded".	10
5	198	The only city I know of on Gor which was built by the labor of slaves, beneath the lash of masters, is Port Kar, which lies in the delta of the Vosk.	10
7	84	On his right cheek, over the cheekbone was the Thief brand of the Caste of Thieves of Port Kar, who use the small brand to identify their members.	10
12	373	I also saw a booth where sandals were sold, cheap and poorly sewn, which the seller was proclaiming were of the same sort as those worn by Menicius of Port Kar.	10
12	375	He claimed over six thousand wins and was, in Ar and certain of the northern cities generally, a quite popular hero; he was said in private life to be cruel and dissolute, venal and petty, but when he climbed to the saddle of a racing tarn there were few who did not thrill to the sight; it was said ...	10
13	152	"I hope she is sold in Port Kar".	10
15	4	The belt dance is a dance developed and made famous by Port Kar dancing girls.	10
16	41	The Yellows carried the first day of the races, led by Menicius of Port Kar, claiming more than six thousand wins, perhaps the most famed rider since the days of Melipolus of Cos, who even in his own time had been a legend, said to have accumulated more than eight thousand wins.	10
17	135	The only exception to this that I know of is Port Kar, in the delta of the Vosk.	10
17	329	I knew he had been of Port Kar.	10
17	333	The man who had been dancing the ship dance had now left the pit of sand and, over against one wall, in the shadows of the torchlight, largely unnoted, danced alone, danced for himself the memories of gleaming Thassa and the swift black ships, the Tarns of the Sea, as the galleys of Port Kar are kno...	10
19	14	On the seat of the wagon, which was drawn by a horned tharlarion, sat the driver and the Scribe whom I had known as Caprus, whose real name, as I had been informed, was Philemon of Tyros, an island some hundreds of pasangs west of Port Kar.	10
19	150	She was beautiful, and had been free; she was not trained; she was of the Scribes, and had been picked up by pirates from Port Kar.	10
19	323	"Is not Samos," he asked, "First Slaver of Port Kar with us this evening?" All eyes turned to one of the boxes near the front of the block.	10
19	325	About his left shoulder he wore the knotted ropes of Port Kar; his garment was simple, dark, closely woven; the hood was thrown back revealing a broad, wide head, close-cropped white hair; the face was red from windburn and salt; it was wrinkled and lined, cracked like leather; in his ears there wer...	10
19	331	The auctioneer bowed low to Samos, First Slaver of Port Kar.	10
19	344	Again the auctioneer looked to the box of Samos, First Slaver of Port Kar.	10
19	361	The auctioneer turned then to the box of Samos, First Slaver of Port Kar.	10
19	362	"Does noble Samos, First Slaver of Port Kar, jewel and mistress of the sea, not care to express interest in these unworthy wenches? Would they not cheer the heart of a seaman returned from long at sea?" There was laughter from the crowd.	10
19	366	"Would they not be a fitting gift for the palace of the very Ubar of Port Kar, beautiful jewel and mistress of gleaming Thassa?" The crowd was silent.	10
19	367	Inwardly I raged, but too I was overcome with horror, for I could not allow even in my imagination that the girls might be sold to one of Port Kar.	10
19	368	Never has a slave girl escaped from canaled Port Kar, protected on one side by the interminable, rush-grown delta of the Vosk, on the other by the broad tides of the Tamber Gulf, and beyond it, the vast, blue, gleaming, perilous Thassa.	10
19	369	It is said that the chains of a slave girl are heaviest in Port Kar.	10
19	370	Perhaps nowhere on Gor would the slavery of a girl be so complete, so abject, as in squalid, malignant Port Kar.	10
19	372	"I do not choose now to bid," said Samos, First Slaver of Port Kar.	10
19	437	"I will close my fist!" "Do not close your fist," said Samos, First Slaver of Port Kar.	10
19	438	Deferentially the auctioneer regarded the Slaver of squalid, malignant Port Kar, mistress and scourge of gleaming Thassa.	10
19	439	"Does Samos, First Slaver of Port Kar, mistress and jewel of gleaming Thassa, now care to express interest?" "He does," said Samos, dispassionately.	10
19	441	"It is bid," said the man, "by Samos, First Slaver of Port Kar, for the wenches now on the block three thousand pieces of gold".	10
20	555	"Deliver this wench to the compound of Samos of Port Kar!" he screamed.	10
21	44	"Menicius of Port Kar, of the Yellows, greatest rider in the races, rides for Cernus".	10
21	51	"Menicius of Port Kar rides for the Yellows," said Vancius.	10
21	78	"Those who brought top price?" "By now," said Vancius, "they are doubtless well-thonged in tarn baskets and on their way to the pleasures of Port Kar".	10
22	130	This time, on the center side ring, a nonfaction tarn was forced into the padded bar by a sudden swerve of Menicius of Port Kar, riding for the Yellows.	10
22	165	Menicius of Port Kar, riding for the Yellows, tearing at the control straps of his bird, tarn goad showering sparks to the sand below, tarn screaming, fought his way, birds buffeting, past the Silver trying to regain the center of the rings.	10
22	169	Menicius of Port Kar had been slowed by the Silver's attempt to stop him.	10
22	190	Menicius of Port Kar, his tarn young, swift, competitive, was making his move, gaining rapidly.	10
22	197	Menicius of Port Kar streaked past and as he did so his right hand flew forward and I saw Mip suddenly lose the reins of the tarn and clutch spasmodically at his back, as though trying to reach something.	10
22	215	Second was the startled Menicius of Port Kar, the palm of victory snatched from his grip.	10
22	284	I picked up the small knife which had slain Mip, that hurled by Menicius of Port Kar.	10
22	300	Menicius of Port Kar would, of course, ride in the Ubar's Race for the Yellows.	10
22	321	I saw Menicius of Port Kar standing on the platform, on which, hooded, trembling with anticipation, stood Quarrel, that marvelous reddish tarn, prince of the tarncots of the Yellows.	10
22	322	Before Menicius of Port Kar, and surrounding the platform as well, I saw a guard of Taurentians.	10
22	324	Menicius of Port Kar, his face white, climbed to the saddle of his bird.	10
22	326	"Gladius of Cos," I said, "following the race would confer with Menicius of Port Kar".	10
22	329	"Menicius of Port Kar," I said, "was in the city of Ko-ro-ba during En'Var of last year".	10
22	337	Menicius of Port Kar is skilled with the killing knife.	10
22	339	"You are mad!" cried Menicius of Port Kar.	10
22	357	I looked across to Menicius of Port Kar.	10
22	362	To my surprise I noted, coiled at the side of his saddle, in four loops, was a whip knife, of the sort common in Port Kar, a whip, but set into its final eighteen inches, arranged in sets of four, twenty thin, narrow blades; the tips of whip knives differ; some have a double-edged blade of about sev...	10
22	366	I saw a Taurentian bring Menicius of Port Kar a container, wrapped in silk, which he thrust in his belt.	10
22	371	Menicius of Port Kar no longer seemed white, no longer afraid.	10
22	378	The riders, with the exception of myself and Menicius of Port Kar, looked from one to the other warily, puzzled.	10
22	427	I was certain their riders had had orders from the box of Cernus to see that I did not win; it would be difficult for a single tarn to block a ring, but two together might well manage; further, in not taking the lead immediately, which I believe I could have done, I hoped to postpone the entry into ...	10
22	442	Ahead of us there was Blue, Red, Green and, as Yellow, Menicius of Port Kar.	10
22	499	He had also, like Menicius of Port Kar, and two of the other riders, raced in the eighth.	10
22	517	Ahead there was but one tarn, that of Menicius of Port Kar.	10
22	520	Low on the bird's neck I saw, ahead, the bent figure of Menicius of Port Kar, astride Quarrel, growing larger and larger.	10
22	534	Menicius of Port Kar was now far in the advance but my tarn, silent, save for the crack of his great wings, eyes bright, blood on its beak and steel-shod talons, again took up the pursuit.	10
22	538	The Silver, the Red and the Blue were still ahead of me, as well as the Yellow, that of my foe Menicius, he of Port Kar.	10
22	564	I heard a frightful crack and my left arm broke open bloody in two lines; my sword leaped up and the next time the whip knife struck I severed it; Menicius, with a curse, threw the coil of whip at me and it passed overhead; we shot through the first of the final rings, the end rings; his tarn knife ...	10
24	165	They were ordered to Port Kar, in chains, to be sold to the galleys.	10
24	300	"But Samos of Port Kar," I stammered, "he purchased the girls".	10

Book 6. (296 results) Raiders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
9	1	Port Kar I watched the dancing girl of Port Kar writhing on the square of sand between the tables, under the whips of masters, in a paga tavern of Port Kar.	10
9	115	It was subject to attack by forces beached to the west from the tarn fleets of Port Kar, through the marsh itself by the barges of Port Kar, or from the east or north, depending on the marches following the disembarkation of Port Kar forces.	10
3	35	Coming from the Sardar, I knew only that I was to travel to Port Kar and there make contact with Samos, first slaver of Port Kar, scourge of Thassa, said to be trusted of Priest-Kings.	10
3	68	"He is either of Port Kar," she said, shifting the gants on her shoulder, "or he was intending to be of Port Kar.	10
3	102	"He is of Port Kar," she said, her hands in my hair, "or intended to be of Port Kar!" She glared at Ho-Hak, as though demanding that he speak.	10
3	237	Each hour with labors, and whips and thongs, let us show him our hatred for Port Kar and those of that city!" "How is it," I asked the girl, "that you so hate those of Port Kar?" "Silence, Slave!" she cried and thrust her fingers into the ropes about my neck, twisting her hand.	10
9	91	Port Kar, squalid, malignant Port Kar, scourge of gleaming Thassa, Tarn of the Sea, is a vast, disjointed mass of holdings, each almost a fortress, piled almost upon one another, divided and crossed by hundreds of canals.	10
9	154	Doubtless all sides, including Port Kar, regarded the risks as too great; doubtless all sides, including Port Kar, were content with the stable, often profitable, situation of constant but small-scale warfare, interspersed with some trading and smuggling, which had for so long characterized their re...	10
9	155	Raids of one upon the other, involving a few dozen ships, were not infrequent, whether on the shipping of Port Kar, or beaching on Cos or Tyros, but major actions, those which might involve the hundreds of galleys possessed by these redoubtable maritime powers, the two island Ubarates and Port Kar, ...	10
9	160	And how, even then, could Port Kar fall, for she was a mass of holdings, each individually defensible, room to room, each separated from the others by the canals which, in their hundreds, crossed and divided the city? No, I said to myself, Port Kar could be held a hundred years.	10
9	219	For was I not myself of Port Kar? Could we not do what we wished, taking what we wanted, as we had rence girls that pleased us, simply binding them and making them our slaves? I laughed, for I had been considering, aforetime, how Port Kar might fall, and yet she was my own, my own city! The two drun...	10
11	155	To be sure, many of the ships of the Ubars were similarly at sea, but men pretending to the Ubarate of Port Kar commonly keep a far larger percentage of their power in port than would a common captain.	10
11	252	"Yes," he raved, "Port Kar, too! Port Kar, too!" With disgust I gestured for the slaves to pull the pins releasing the windlasses.	10
11	358	"Be it known to you, Ubars," said he, "that Samos, First Slaver of Port Kar, now proposes to the council that it take into its own hands the full and sole governance of the city of Port Kar, with full powers, whether of policy and decree, of enforcement, of taxation and law, or other, pertinent to t...	10
11	459	Surely these might then be dissuaded from becoming allies of Cos and Tyros, and perhaps might be inclined to offer their services to Port Kar? At the very least, the ships of Port Kar might, in such a situation, become suddenly welcome in ports that had hitherto been closed to them.	10
11	460	And who knew what trading ships might make their way to Port Kar, if they thought her a fair and honest city? The estimate of Samos, that such a gesture on Port Kar's part might eventually result in a trebling of her trade, seemed to me possibly conservative.	10
13	12	I put to them, the Ubars of Cos and Tyros, as well as I could, the proposals of the Council of Captains of Port Kar, that there would be concord, and doubtless an opening of commerce, between the two Ubarates and the maligned city in the Vosk's delta, my own Port Kar.	10
13	364	"Port oars! Stroke!" We lifted our oars, and then those of the port side only entered the water and pressed against it.	10
13	509	"Now," said I, "to Port Kar!" "To Port Kar!" cheered my men.	10
13	510	"To Port Kar!" And thus it was that the ships of Bosk, he of Port Kar, came to be painted green.	10
15	1	How Bosk Returned in Triumph to Port Kar The return to Port Kar was triumphal indeed.	10
15	101	"Hail Bosk, Admiral of Port Kar!" It was now five weeks after my triumphal entry into Port Kar.	10
15	627	"Hail Bosk! Hail Bosk, Admiral of Port Kar! Hail Bosk, Admiral of Port Kar!" I heard a cry, as of fear, from my right, and I turned to stare drunkenly toward the end of the table.	10
16	291	"Hear them? Hear what they are crying outside?" "They are crying that there is a Home Stone in Port Kar," she said, "but there is no Home Stone in Port Kar.	10
16	293	"If men will that there be a Home Stone in Port Kar," I said, "then in Port Kar there will be a Home Stone".	10
16	340	And I heard men behind him cry, "There is a Home Stone in Port Kar! There is a Home Stone in Port Kar!" This cry was taken up by thousands, and everywhere I saw men pause in their flight, and boats put about, and men pour from the entryways of their buildings onto the walks lining the canals.	10
16	391	"They cry," said the boy, in his silk and velvet, "that in Port Kar there is a Home Stone!" "There is no Home Stone in Port Kar," said Antisthenes.	10
16	426	"I have seen it! The Home Stone of Port Kar!" "The Home Stone of Port Kar!" cried thousands.	10
1	39	In some cities, Port Kar, for example, the long bow is almost unknown.	10
1	60	The most important reason for not finding a guide, of course, even among the eastern rence growers, is that the delta is claimed by Port Kar, which lies within it, some hundred pasangs from its northwestern edge, bordering on the shallow Tamber Gulf, beyond which is gleaming Thassa, the Sea.	10
1	61	Port Kar, crowded, squalid, malignant, is sometimes referred to as the Tarn of the Sea.	10
1	63	The fleets of tarn ships of Port Kar are the scourge of Thassa, beautiful, lateen-rigged galleys that ply the trade of plunder and enslavement from the Ta-Thassa Mountains of the southern hemisphere of Gor to the ice lakes of the North; and westward even beyond the terraced island of Cos and the roc...	10
1	64	I knew one in Port Kar, by name Samos, a slaver, said to be an agent of Priest-Kings.	10
1	65	I was in the delta of the Vosk, and making my way to the city of Port Kar, which alone of Gorean cities commonly welcomes strangers, though few but exiles, murderers, outlaws, thieves and cutthroats would care to find their way to her canaled darknesses.	10
1	67	About his left shoulder, in the manner of his city, he had worn the knotted ropes of Port Kar; his garment had been simple, dark and closely woven; the hood had been thrown back, revealing his broad, wide head, the close-cropped white hair; the face had been red from windburn and salt; it had been w...	10
1	72	There are scattered, almost invisible, furtive communities of rence growers who eke out their livelihood in the delta, nominally under the suzerainty of Port Kar.	10
1	103	Not only must they fear the marsh sharks and the carnivorous eels which frequent the lower delta, not to mention the various species of aggressive water tharlarion and the winged, monstrous, hissing, predatory Ul, but they must fear, perhaps most of all, men, and of these, most of all, the men of Po...	10
1	104	As I have mentioned, Port Kar claims the suzerainty of the delta.	10
1	105	Accordingly, frequently, bands of armed men, maintaining allegiance to one or the other of the warring, rival Ubars of Port Kar, enter the delta to, as they say, collect taxes.	10
1	111	I must make my way to Port Kar.	10
2	35	"Are you of Port Kar?" she asked.	10
2	43	"Port Kar," I said.	10
3	11	Ironically, it is not of much use against an organized attack of well-armed warriors, such as those of Port Kar, and those against whom it might be fairly adequate, other rence growers, seldom attack communities like their own.	10
3	12	I had heard there had not been general hostilities among rence growers for more than fifty years; their communities are normally isolated from one another, and they have enough to worry about contending with "tax collectors" from Port Kar, without bothering to give much attention to making life mise...	10
3	16	"So," said Ho-Hak, regarding me, "you are on your way to Port Kar?" He sat upon a giant shell of the Vosk sorp, as on a sort of throne, which, for these people, I gather it was.	10
3	22	"It was my intention to go to Port Kar".	10
3	23	"We are not fond of the men of Port Kar," Ho-Hak said.	10
3	27	He was doubtless a slave, probably escaped from the galleys of Port Kar, who had fled to the marshes and been befriended by rence growers.	10
3	29	"I am not of Port Kar," I said.	10
3	32	"Why do you go to Port Kar?" asked Ho-Hak.	10
3	61	"And I brought to the marshes with me," said he, "the memory of a dozen years on the galleys, and a hatred for all things of Port Kar".	10
3	69	For what other reason would one go to Port Kar?" For a long time Ho-Hak said nothing.	10
3	84	With the year's rence sold, the communities do not care to lie too closely to one another; the primary reason is that, in doing so, they would present too inviting a target for the "tax collectors" of Port Kar.	10
3	166	"With such a bow," he said to that man, "we might live free in the marsh, free of those of Port Kar".	10
3	195	"We are not of Port Kar," said he.	10
3	205	"Of custom," said Ho-Hak, "we give those we capture who are of Port Kar a choice".	10
3	225	"He is of Port Kar, or would be of that city".	10
3	235	"I say," said the blondish girl, "let us rather shame him and Port Kar as well.	10
3	274	"I see now," said Ho-Hak, "you are indeed of Port Kar".	10
4	141	"Those of Port Kar," I said, "would doubtless not be pleased by such news".	10
4	144	"Perhaps also," I suggested, "in uniting the islands there might be some measure of protection gained from the officials of Port Kar".	10
4	147	"And would there not be some measure of protection against," I asked, "the simple slavers of Port Kar?" "Perhaps," she said.	10
5	177	But, as I watched, and the young men shouted, the dances became less stylized, and became more universal to woman, whether she be a drunken housewife in a suburb of a city of Earth or a jeweled slave in Port Kar, dances that spoke of them as women who want men, and will have them.	10
6	41	I heard then from another side of the island as well the terrifying cry, "Nets, nets!" Then, as we milled and ran, here and there among us were men of Port Kar, warriors, some with helmet and shield, sword and spear, others with club and knife, others with whips, some with capture loops, some with c...	10
6	45	With him there stood a tall, bearded helmeted warrior of Port Kar, the golden slash of the officer across the temples of his helmet.	10
6	46	The rencer was pointing here and there, and shouting to the men of Port Kar, crying orders to them.	10
6	56	Most, panic-stricken, knowing themselves no match for trained warriors, fled like animals, crying out in fear before the hunters of Port Kar.	10
6	78	Everywhere about us there were shouting men, screaming women, running, crying children, and everywhere, it seemed, the men of Port Kar, and their slaves, holding torches aloft, burning like the eyes of predators in the marsh night.	10
6	83	More than one warrior of Port Kar lay sprawled on the matting about him, his head broken or his chest crushed.	10
6	84	Now, just outside the circle of his swinging pole, there must have been ten or fifteen warriors of Port Kar, their swords drawn, the light of the marsh torches reflecting from them, surrounding him, fencing him in with their weapons.	10
6	86	"A fighter!" cried one of the men of Port Kar.	10
6	88	"Tharlarion!" he shouted at the men of Port Kar.	10
6	91	I saw warriors of Port Kar rushing forward, clubbing him senseless with the pommels of their swords, the butts of their spears.	10
6	112	I moved my head aside as a torch, in the hands of a slave of the warriors of Port Kar, flashed by.	10
6	116	A warrior of Port Kar leapt after her.	10
6	136	A warrior of Port Kar, in the light of a torch held by a slave, was binding a girl near me.	10
6	140	Then another warrior of Port Kar, followed by his slave with the torch.	10
6	144	Suddenly in the darkness before me there reared up a warrior of Port Kar.	10
6	197	On the other side there were the lights and torches, the cries of men, the slavers of Port Kar.	10
6	205	There were no rencers there and, doubtless because of that, none of Port Kar, though I did see many torches, going to the place on the island where we had shortly before stood; then the torches there divided, half going to the left, half coming to the right, our direction.	10
7	2	The men of Port Kar had set fire to the two islands, beginning at the farther edges, to drive any who might be concealed on them, perhaps having cut burrows into the rence or hiding in the center oar wells, across the bridges toward the central island, on which had been the pole of the dance, Telima...	10
7	4	We saw several running across the bridges, crying out, being whipped toward the torches by those of Port Kar.	10
7	6	Later, about an Ahn before dawn, the two other rence islands, tethered to the central island, were similarly set afire, their fugitives, too, being driven to the nets and binding fiber of the men of Port Kar.	10
7	8	By the time that dawn's gray knife had touched the waters of the marsh the work of the men of Port Kar was mostly done.	10
7	16	One beautiful girl was tied to the prow of each ship that, in returning to Port Kar, others might see that the raid had been successful.	10
7	46	The slaves of the men of Port Kar then separated the nets, rolling them, then folding them, then placing them on the barges.	10
7	49	Henrak, I gathered, would be a rich man in Port Kar.	10
7	50	The slavers of Port Kar, being in their way wise men, seldom betray and enslave those such as Henrak, who have served them so well.	10
7	65	Then, some fifty yards away, it turned slowly, prow now facing away from the island, toward Port Kar.	10
7	116	It was said that never had a slave girl escaped from Port Kar, but this, doubtless like many such sayings, was not true.	10
7	117	Still, the escape of a slave girl, or of a male slave, must indeed be rare from canaled Port Kar, protected as it is on one side by the Tamber Gulf and gleaming Thassa, and on the other by the interminable marshes, with their sharks and tharlarion.	10
7	119	I knew that Ho-Hak, too, had escaped from Port Kar.	10
7	152	"You are going to Port Kar?" she asked.	10
7	155	"I do not think you are of Port Kar," she said.	10
7	161	The fewer who knew that Tarl Cabot sought entry to Port Kar the better.	10
7	164	I would then make my way to Port Kar.	10
7	191	I looked westward, the direction that had been taken by the heavily laden barges of the slavers of Port Kar.	10
7	201	"It will take long, will it not," I asked, "for barges so heavily laden to reach Port Kar?" "Yes," she said, startled, "it will take long".	10
8	15	I was pleased with the craft, and, not more than an Ahn after we had returned to the island from our concealment in the marsh, Telima poled us away from its shore, setting our course in the wake of the narrow, high-prowed marsh barges of the slavers of Port Kar.	10
8	36	I do not think the men of Port Kar, at that time, realized the nature of the weapon that had slain their helmsman.	10
8	78	As darkness fell in the marsh the men of Port Kar lit torches on the sides of the barges.	10
8	80	Then the torches were extinguished and, in the darkness, fearing, the men of Port Kar waited.	10
8	83	The men of Port Kar knew, as I had not, that rencers communicate in the marshes by the means of such signals.	10
8	84	The fact, delightful to me, that Telima's skill was such that actual marsh gants frequently responded to her cries was, I expect, less delightful to those of Port Kar.	10
8	113	Having no large number of men at my disposal, it seemed best to me to let the men of Port Kar themselves do most of my fighting.	10
8	235	There were no men of Port Kar on the sixth barge, but, as I stepped from the foredeck of the sixth barge to the tiller deck of the fifth, I saw some of their bodies.	10
8	246	And so I, with my shield and sword, helmeted, followed by Telima, a rence girl, carrying the great bow, with its arrows, many of them now bloodied, taken from the bodies of those of Port Kar, moved from barge to barge.	10
8	247	On none of them did we find a living man of Port Kar.	10
8	252	I was not much concerned with how those of Port Kar had determined who would be passenger on that fugitive vessel.	10
8	312	"Is that why you have saved them," she asked, "from the men of Port Kar?" I looked at her in fury.	10
8	320	"I have you all," I told her, "and the slaves at the benches as well! If I wish, I will take you all to Port Kar, as you are, and sell you.	10
8	340	I had learned that I was, in my heart, of Port Kar.	10
8	407	"I will sell you all in Port Kar," I said.	10
8	473	"I shall sell you all in Port Kar!" I cried.	10
8	475	"But I have won you and your people, and all these slaves," I told him, "that I might have my vengeance on you, for making me slave, and come rich with cargo to Port Kar!" "I expect that is not true," said Ho-Hak.	10
8	490	Ho-Hak had been bred a slave, a degraded and distorted exotic, and had served even in the darkness of the stinking rowing holds of the cargo vessels of Port Kar, and yet, before me, he had shown himself a dozen times more man than me.	10
8	500	Did she mock me? "You have taught me," I said, "that I am of Port Kar".	10
8	504	"If any here," she said, "is of Port Kar, it is surely Telima".	10
8	515	"I am going to Port Kar," I said.	10
8	539	I was such that might make a place for himself in a city such as Port Kar.	10
8	660	"You will be taken as slave girls to Port Kar," I said.	10
8	696	"As I recall," she said, "you are going to take us all to Port Kar, to be sold as slaves".	10
8	701	"That," she said, "is what one would do who is of Port Kar".	10
8	725	If not, they will guide you to freedom, away from Port Kar".	10
8	784	"You are going to Port Kar, are you not?" she asked.	10
8	787	"I, too, am going to Port Kar".	10
8	801	"One of Port Kar might do such," she said.	10
8	855	"I thought you would never wish to go again to Port Kar," I said.	10
8	856	"I would follow you," she said, "—even to Port Kar".	10
8	860	"I am of Port Kar," I told her.	10
8	862	"Are we not both," she asked, "of Port Kar?" I remembered her cruelties, her treatment of me.	10
9	15	The dancing girls of Port Kar are said to be the best of all Gor.	10
9	23	So I had come to Port Kar.	10
9	28	"When I escaped from Port Kar," she said, "there were no such gates".	10
9	42	I watched the girl from Port Kar dance.	10
9	56	It was well known among the pirate captains of Port Kar, scourge of gleaming Thassa.	10
9	58	He was pirate indeed, and slaver, and murderer and thief, a cruel and worthless man, abominable, truly of Port Kar.	10
9	61	I, too, was of Port Kar.	10
9	64	There is more honesty in Port Kar, I thought, than in all the cities of Gor.	10
9	89	"One of the finest swords in Port Kar," said another.	10
9	96	In Port Kar, incidentally, there are none of the towers often encountered in the northern cities of Gor.	10
9	97	The men of Port Kar had not chosen to build towers.	10
9	100	Politically, Port Kar is chaos, ruled by several conflicting Ubars, each with his own following, each attempting to terrorize, to govern and tax to the extent of his power.	10
9	102	Samos, First Slaver of Port Kar, said to be an agent of Priest-Kings, was, I knew, a member of this council.	10
9	105	There is even, in Port Kar, a recognized caste of Thieves, the only such I know of on Gor, which, in the lower canals and perimeters of the city, has much power, that of the threat and the knife.	10
9	107	One might think that Port Kar, divided as she is, a city in which are raised the thrones of anarchy, would fall easy prey to either the imperialisms or the calculated retaliations of other cities, but it is not true.	10
9	108	When threatened from the outside, the men of Port Kar have, desperately and with the viciousness of cornered urts, well defended themselves.	10
9	110	The delta itself is Port Kar's strongest wall.	10
9	111	The nearest solid land, other than occasional bars in the marshes, to Port Kar lies to her north, some one hundred pasangs distant.	10
9	113	It lay hundreds of pasangs from the nearest Gorean city other, of course, than Port Kar.	10
9	116	Further, it was open to attack from the air by means of the cavalries of mercenary tarnsmen of Port Kar, of which she has several.	10
9	119	And even if an attacking force could be brought into the marsh, it was not clear that it would, days later, make its way to the walls of Port Kar.	10
9	122	The supply lines of such a force, given the barges of Port Kar and her tarn cavalries, might be easily cut.	10
9	132	I wondered if, now that the canals were barred, slaves escaped from Port Kar.	10
9	133	The nearest solid land was about one hundred pasangs to the north, but it was open land, and, there, on the edges of the delta, there were log outposts of Port Kar, where slave hunters and trained sleen, together, patrolled the marshes' edges.	10
9	143	Could not Port Kar be attacked from the sea? The music of the musicians began to beat in my blood, reeling there.	10
9	146	But only Cos and Tyros had fleets to match those of Port Kar.	10
9	147	There were the northern islands, of course, and they were numerous, but small, extending in an archipelago like a scimitar northeastward from Cos, which lay some four hundred pasangs west of Port Kar.	10
9	152	Only Cos and Tyros had fleets to match those of Port Kar.	10
9	156	No, I said to myself, Port Kar is safe from the sea.	10
9	157	And then I laughed, for I was considering how Port Kar might fall, and yet she was my own, my own city.	10
9	161	And even should she, somehow, fall, her men need only take ship, and then, when it pleased them, return, ordering slaves again to build in the delta a city called Port Kar.	10
9	162	On Gor, I told myself, and perhaps on all worlds, there will always be a Port Kar.	10
9	164	The girls of Port Kar, I told myself, are the best on Gor.	10
9	214	Port Kar seemed sovereign on Thassa.	10
9	217	It angered me, suddenly, drunkenly, that those of Port Kar, wicked as they were, should possess so superbly the skills of seamanship.	10
9	223	The whip knife is a delicate weapon, and can be used with elegance, with finesse; it is, as far as I know, unique to Port Kar.	10
9	245	And, as I watched, on that square of sand between the tables in a paga tavern in Port Kar, under the ship's lanterns, the movements of the body of a slave girl, the lights reflected in her chains, the rubies, the shimmering golden droplets, I grew slowly furious.	10
9	265	The men of Port Kar, I said, know well how to treat women.	10
9	266	The men of Port Kar, I said to myself, know well how to keep women.	10
9	272	"I am of Port Kar!" I cried.	10
9	288	Thurnock, though in Port Kar, had found a piece of Ka-la-na stock, and had been carving a great bow, the long bow.	10
9	377	"Do you know," I asked, "the Love Dance of the Newly Collared Slave Girl?" "Port Kar's?" asked the leader of the musicians.	10
9	506	I looked at the brick, the stone, watched the patterns and shadows playing on the walls of the buildings of Port Kar.	10
9	511	There was nothing of worth in Port Kar, nor in all the worlds of all the suns.	10
9	530	I hated Port Kar, and all that was of it.	10
9	531	And I hated myself, for I, too, was of Port Kar.	10
9	534	All that was in Port Kar was rotten and worthless.	10
9	537	There stood there, framed in its conical threshold, Surbus, he who was a captain of Port Kar.	10
9	541	I knew him to be pirate; and I knew him to be slaver, and murderer, and thief; I knew him to be a cruel and worthless man, abominable, truly of Port Kar and, as I looked upon him, the filth and rottenness, I felt nothing but disgust.	10
9	591	"What right have you to interfere?" "The right of one of Port Kar," I said, "to do what pleases him".	10
9	594	"That is Surbus, one of the finest swords in Port Kar".	10
9	614	The chains which she had worn while serving paga, and when she had asked for my protection, had been removed, doubtless while she had been in the alcove, sometime after I had left the tavern, that she might have better rendered Surbus, Captain of Port Kar, the dues of the slave girl.	10
9	655	And then the dawn came and, over the buildings of Port Kar, beyond them, and beyond the shallow, muddy Tamber, where the Vosk empties, we saw, I for the first time, gleaming Thassa, the Sea.	10
9	668	"Do the men of Port Kar love the sea?" I asked.	10
9	696	They were seamen of Port Kar.	10
10	1	The Council of Captains I took my seat in the Council of the Captains of Port Kar.	10
10	3	The Spring Equinox, in Port Kar, as well as in most other Gorean cities, marks the New Year.	10
10	5	I had been in Port Kar for some seven Gorean months.	10
10	8	Accordingly I, who had been Tarl Cabot, once a warrior of Ko-ro-ba, the Towers of the Morning, sat now in the council of these captains, merchant and pirate princes, the high oligarchs of squalid, malignant Port Kar, Scourge of Gleaming Thassa.	10
10	9	In the council, in effect, was vested the stability and administration of Port Kar.	10
10	29	The "Stone" of Port Kar, tested against the official "Stone" at the Sardar, reposed in a special fortified building in the great arsenal, which complex was administered by agents of the Council of Captains.	10
10	37	Port Kar's Merchant Foot, like her "Stone," is kept in the arsenal, in the same building as her "Stone".	10
10	40	It lay on the eastern edge of Port Kar, backing on the marshes; it opened, by means of a huge barred gate, to the canals of the city; in its courtyard were wharved his seven ships; when journeying to Thassa the great gate was opened and they were rowed through the city to the sea.	10
10	42	When Clitus, Thurnock and I, and our slaves, had first come to Port Kar, we had taken quarters not far from that holding.	10
10	50	I had not seen Henrak, who had betrayed the rencers, in Port Kar.	10
10	55	He was rather well known now in Port Kar, having lost six barges, with their slaves and cargo, and most of his crews, in the marshes.	10
10	58	But still, even in the face of such reputed odds as he had faced, there were those in Port Kar who smiled behind his back, thinking to themselves how he had gone forth with so fine a showing and had returned with little more than his life, a handful of terrified men, and a narrow wooden punt.	10
10	64	I myself did not choose to apply for clienthood with a Ubar of Port Kar.	10
10	68	He may have seen me that night, among the rencers on the island, but he did not place me, one who now sat on the Council of the Captains of Port Kar.	10
10	70	I had seen Samos, First Slaver of Port Kar, only once at the meeting of the council.	10
10	72	Originally I had intended to come to Port Kar to contact him, but I had, of course, now chosen not to do so.	10
10	74	I had done well in Port Kar, since I had come to the city some seven months ago.	10
10	80	What else might motivate an intelligent man, other perhaps than the bodies of his women, or those he would decide to make his women, which might serve him for recreation? In these days, in myself, I found little that I could respect, but I did find that I had come, in my way, to love the sea, as is ...	10
10	84	I had raised my own flag in Port Kar, for there is no single flag for the city.	10
10	122	My attention was returned now to the meeting of the Council of the Captains of Port Kar.	10
10	123	A seaman, reportedly escaped from Cos, was telling of the preparation of a great fleet intending to sail against Port Kar, a fleet that would be enlarged by the forces of Tyros as well.	10
10	125	Cos and Tyros, when not at one another's throats, are always threatening to join their forces for an onslaught on Port Kar.	10
10	127	But not in over a hundred years had the united fleets of Cos and Tyros challenged Port Kar, and at that time, because of storms, they had been scattered and beaten off.	10
10	128	As I have mentioned, the warfare between Cos and Tyros and Port Kar had been, for years, small-scale, seldom involving more than a few dozen galleys on a side.	10
10	134	We then turned our attention to matters of greater importance, the need for more covered docks in the arsenal, beneath which additional galleys could be caulked for the grain fleet, else how could a hundred vessels be ready for the voyage north to the grain fields before the sixth passage hand? It i...	10
10	135	The following figures pertain to medium class or larger vessels: The five Ubars of Port Kar, Chung, Eteocles, Nigel, Sullius Maximus and Henrius Sevarius, control among themselves some four hundred ships.	10
10	136	The approximately one hundred and twenty captains of the Council of the Captains of Port Kar have, pledged to their personal service, some thousand ships.	10
10	140	To get a better figure, particularly since the above figures are themselves approximations, let us say that Port Kar houses in the neighborhood of five thousand ships.	10
10	154	The rumor of the seaman, that Cos and Tyros were preparing fleets against Port Kar, again entered my mind, but again I dismissed it.	10
10	158	The men of Port Kar may permit slaves to build their houses and their walls, but they do not permit them to build their ships.	10
10	183	Why, I asked myself, should Cos and Tyros consider bringing their fleets against Port Kar? What had changed? But then I recalled that nothing had changed.	10
10	184	It was only a rumor, one which, it seemed, recurred at least every year in Port Kar.	10
10	194	Indeed, the galleys of Port Kar, medium and heavy class, carried shearing blades, which had been an invention of Tersites.	10
10	200	Perhaps this last proposal of Tersites' had been the most offensive of all to the men of Port Kar.	10
10	204	He had then returned to Port Kar, his fortunes exhausted, no place left to him in the arsenal.	10
10	208	I had made, since coming to Port Kar, five voyages.	10
10	235	I do not think they cared to forsake their piracies, but, too, I think they felt a pride in serving one who was said, now, after the incident of the paga tavern, to possess one of the finest blades in Port Kar.	10
10	243	But I did, of course, pay them well and, in my holding, knowing men, saw that they could have their pick of some of Port Kar's most beautiful slave girls.	10
10	249	Both lie some four hundred pasangs west of Port Kar, Tyros to the south of Cos, separated by some hundred pasangs from her.	10
10	260	Saphrar, I recalled, had once been a perfumer from Tyros but, being exiled as a thief, had made his way to Port Kar, and thence had gone to Turia.	10
10	267	I seldom returned to Port Kar without learning from Luma that my fortunes had been augmented even further in my absence.	10
10	272	I had made one innovation in practices common to Port Kar.	10
10	274	The fighting ship, incidentally, the long ship, the ram-ship, has never been, to my knowledge, in Port Kar, or Cos, or Tyros, or elsewhere on Gor, rowed by slaves; the Gorean fighting ship always has free men at the oars.	10
10	282	Merchants of Port Kar began to apply to me that they might transport their goods in my ships.	10
10	287	In the northern forests Port Kar already had several such preserves.	10
10	294	Individual trees, not in the preserves, which are claimed by Port Kar, are marked with the seal of the arsenal.	10
10	299	Port Kar is, incidentally, completely dependent on the northern timber.	10
10	304	But why should Cos and Tyros come against Port Kar at this time? But it was a rumor, I reminded myself again, forcibly, a rumor, a baseless rumor.	10
10	329	If it did, doubtless he had come to learn that Tarl Cabot was now in Port Kar.	10
11	75	"Henrius Sevarius," they were crying, "Ubar of Port Kar".	10
11	86	"It appears," said one of the captains at my side, "that Henrius Sevarius is not yet Ubar of Port Kar".	10
11	113	They had surely served to draw the captains of Port Kar into the ambush prepared for them outside the hall of the council.	10
11	115	Could he come to be the one Ubar of Port Kar, it would constitute a considerable element of his wealth, indeed, the major one.	10
11	140	"It is the council," I said, "that is now the first power in Port Kar".	10
11	151	At any given time most of the ships of Port Kar are at sea.	10
11	160	I had long felt that five Ubars in Port Kar, and the attendant anarchy resulting from this division of power, was politically insufferable, with its competition of extortions, taxes and decrees, but, more importantly, I felt that it jeopardized my own interests.	10
11	161	I intended, in Port Kar, to accumulate fortunes and power.	10
11	168	Nominally beneath its aegis, I might, for all practical purposes, be free to augment my house as I saw fit, the House of Bosk, of Port Kar.	10
11	170	I expected that there would be support for this position, both from men like myself, self-seeking men, wise in political realities, and from the inevitable and useful fools, abundant even in Port Kar, hoping simply for a saner and more efficient governance of their city.	10
11	176	A man such as I, I thought, might rise high in a city such as this, squalid, malignant Port Kar.	10
11	180	Each captain in Port Kar had come to the meeting, saving some of those most closely associated with the house of Sevarius.	10
11	234	"Tonight," he said, "Sevarius was to be Ubar in Port Kar, and each was to have a stone of gold".	10
11	238	This angered me, for I felt that there must be more in the coup than the work of one of Port Kar's five Ubars.	10
11	251	"And Port Kar!" I cried.	10
11	258	There, facing me, his face expressionless, was one who was well known in Port Kar.	10
11	263	About his left shoulder there were the two ropes of Port Kar.	10
11	266	His face was wide, and heavy, and muchly lined; it, like many of those of Port Kar, showed the marks of Thassa, burned into it by wind and salt; he had gray eyes; his hair was white, and short-cropped; in his ears there were two small golden rings.	10
11	267	If a larl might have been transformed into a man and yet retain its instincts, its heart and its cunning, I think it might look much like Samos, First Slaver of Port Kar.	10
11	291	"I am," said Samos, of Port Kar.	10
11	308	Then Samos, who was senior captain of the Council of Captains of Port Kar, turned and left.	10
11	309	"Samos," said one of the scribes nearby, "only made landfall in Port Kar this night, at the eighteenth hour, from Scagnar".	10
11	311	So who then, I asked myself, would write such a note? Apparently there were others then in Port Kar who would have business with me.	10
11	318	"And so," concluded Lysias, "I bring you all amnesty in the name of the Ubar of Port Kar, Henrius Sevarius!" "Henrius Sevarius, the Captain," said Samos, speaking from his curule chair, in the name of the council, "is most kind".	10
11	339	Lysias, his body rigid with fury, his hand on the hilt of his sword, stood not speaking before Samos, First Slaver of Port Kar.	10
11	350	"Is it true," he asked, "that in the eyes of the council Henrius Sevarius is no longer Ubar or Captain in Port Kar?" "It is," cried the voices.	10
11	365	"Further," said Samos, "I propose that the council decree that all bonds among clients and patrons in Port Kar be now dissolved, to be reestablished only on the basis of mutual consent and explicit contract on the part of the parties involved, which documents, in copy, are to be placed with the coun...	10
11	377	"There is the power in Port Kar," he cried.	10
11	416	Besides, if the council were to become truly sovereign in Port Kar, as it had proclaimed itself, it seemed essential that it should soon have its own military forces within the city.	10
11	418	It was shortly past daybreak, and the gray light of Port Kar's dawn was filtering in through the high, narrow windows of the Council of Captains.	10
11	429	"Now that the council is sovereign in Port Kar," Samos said, his fist clenched on the arm of his curule chair, "might not peace be possible?" This puzzled me.	10
11	431	One captain, leaning back in his curule chair, said, "There has always been war between Port Kar, and Cos and Tyros".	10
11	434	"As you know," said Samos, speaking evenly, "Port Kar is not the most loved, nor the most greatly respected nor highest honored among the cities of Gor".	10
11	439	Port Kar, I told myself, was only too well understood by the other cities of Gor.	10
11	456	Further, men might be willing to believe Port Kar now other than she had been, that the coming to power of the council would have reformed her.	10
11	457	And what better gesture than this mission of peace to the hereditary enemies Cos and Tyros? If the burden of maintaining the conflict were clearly on them, it was possible that allies of theirs might be influenced to diminish or, perhaps, withdraw their support, or, perhaps, pledge it even to Port K...	10
11	471	"And," I asked, "do we abide by their acceptance? Would there then be truly peace between Port Kar, and Cos and Tyros?" "That," smiled Samos, "may always be taken under consideration at a future meeting of the council".	10
11	477	It did not bode well for Port Kar that the Ubar of Tyros should voyage to Cos.	10
11	478	More than ever it now seemed possible, or probable, that the two island Ubarates might well be conspiring against Port Kar.	10
11	479	Why else should there be a meeting of the two Ubars? Generally, there was almost as little love lost between them as between them and the Ubars of Port Kar.	10
11	497	"Let there be peace in the council," said the scribe behind the great table, that before the now-empty five thrones of the Ubars of Port Kar.	10
11	518	I was astonished but it was my sensing of the group that, if peace were made, Port Kar would keep it.	10
11	521	I sat numb in the great curule chair, that of a captain of Port Kar.	10
11	527	I realized I was again in Port Kar.	10
11	555	"Further," said Antisthenes, "I would recommend that we do not even send one who wears the twin ropes of Port Kar.	10
11	560	"I am, of course, highly honored," I began, "that noble Samos should think of me, that he should nominate me, doubtless the lowliest of the captains here assembled, for a post of such distinction, that of bearing the peace of Port Kar to her hereditary enemies Cos and Tyros".	10
11	601	I asked myself if Samos thought he was so easily rid of me, one who might challenge him, senior captain, in the council of the captains of Port Kar.	10
13	2	It was now within the Fifth Passage Hand, some four months after the unsuccessful coup of Henrius Sevarius in the city of Port Kar.	10
13	33	"Tharlarion of Port Kar!" "I gather," I said, smiling, "that our terms of peace are rejected".	10
13	50	"When," snarled Lurius, "you find yourself chained in the rowing hold of a round ship, you may, my fine captain of Port Kar, bethink yourself less brave and clever than now you do".	10
13	58	"May I present," asked Chenbar, indicating the veiled, robed girl sitting to one side, "the Lady Vivina?" "I do not wish to be presented to a tarsk of Port Kar," hissed the girl.	10
13	67	"Or," I added, "a collar in Port Kar".	10
13	80	"I meant only," I said, "that your beauty reminded me of that of girls, serving slaves, nude and double chained in the paga taverns of Port Kar.	10
13	108	"Forgive me," I said, "but the Ubara of Tyros, so beautiful are our women, is worthy only to be the least of the Kettle Slaves in the meanest of the dwellings of Port Kar".	10
13	133	Following the ceremony of the companionship there will be a conjoining of our fleets, that we may soon thereafter pay Port Kar a visit of state".	10
13	143	"You have had dealings," I asked, "with the Ubar Henrius Sevarius in Port Kar?" Chenbar smiled.	10
13	153	"Mark well the name of Claudius, Captain," said Chenbar, "for he is to become Ubar of Port Kar".	10
13	156	"As you may not know," I said, "Claudius and the various forces of Henrius Sevarius are scarcely in command of Port Kar".	10
13	159	"You seem," I said, "to be well aware of what transpires in Port Kar".	10
13	161	"Perhaps you would care to meet our principal courier, he who will, in time, lead our fleets to the harbor of Port Kar?" "Yes," I said, "I would".	10
13	165	He carried, in the crook of his left arm, a helmet, bearing that crest of sleen hair that marks a captain of Port Kar.	10

Book 7. (1 results) Captive of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
18	1	The Epilogue of Bosk of Port Kar Thid is now Bosk of Port Kar, who speaks.	10

Book 8. (5 results) Hunters of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	51	In Port Kar, my city, the utilization of the facilities of the port is regulated by a board of four magistrates, the Port Consortium, which reports directly to the Council of Captains, which, since the downfall of the warring Ubars, is sovereign in the city.	10
1	22	Indeed, he was First Slaver of Port Kar, and First Captain in its Council of Captains, which council, since the downfall of the four Ubars is sovereign in Port Kar.	10
3	41	The Merchants, who control Lydius, under Merchant Law, for it is a free port, like Helmutsport, and Schendi and Bazi, are more interested in having their port heavily trafficked than strictly policed.	10
13	158	It was not difficult to imagine that it was not simply to capture Bosk of Port Kar, or to do injury to those of Port Kar, that the Rhoda of Tyros had come to Lydius, and upriver to Laura.	10
22	862	She would be sold in Port Kar, a great slave-clearing port.	10

Book 9. (3 results) Marauders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	111	But this Bosk, forcing his mistress, the beautiful Telima, to grant him his freedom, had come to Port Kar, bringing her with him as his slave, and had there, after many adventures, earned riches and fame, and the title even of Admiral of Port Kar.	10
21	159	It was to him, as soon as Chenbar, freed of the dungeon of Port Kar, to which I had seen him consigned, had returned to Tyros, that the task had been given to hunt and capture the Ubar of Ar, Marlenus, and an Admiral of Port Kar, Bosk.	10
21	162	Sullius Maximus had been one of the five Ubars of Port Kar, whose reigns, dividing the city, had been terminated when the Council of Captains, under the leadership of Samos, First Captain of Port Kar, had assumed the sovereignty.	10

Book 10. (1 results) Tribesmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	816	It was in this port that the warehouses of Ibn Saran, salt merchant, currently the guest of Samos of Port Kar, were to be found.	10

Book 11. (3 results) Slave Girl of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
16	169	This infamous port is the home port of the famed black slavers of Schendi, a league of slavers well known for their cruel depredations on shipping, but it is also a free port, administered by black merchants, and its fine harbor and its inland markets to the north and east attract much commerce.	10
22	83	Sailors of Cos usually refer to the left side of the ship by the port of destination and the right side of the ship by the port of registration; this alters, of course, when the ports of destination and registration are the same; in that case the sailors of Cos customarily refer to the left side of ...	10
25	5	Beside the man before me, the man with white, short-cropped hair, who was Samos of Port Kar, chief among the captains of the Council of Captains of Port Kar, was a slender, gray-eyed man, clad in the green of the caste of physicians.	10

Book 13. (4 results) Explorers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	5	It was early evening in Port Kar, and I had supped with Samos, first captain in the council of captains, that congress of captains sovereign in Port Kar.	10
6	85	"Two points off the port bow!" Men went to the port rail, and Ulafi climbed to the stern castle.	10
11	246	"It was the Sleen of Port Kar," said he who had been called Kunguni, "captained by the rogue, Bejar, of that port".	10
33	117	It is, for example, quite familiar in Port Kar and, far to the southeast of that port, and somewhere far to the north and east of our present position, in the Tahari.	10

Book 14. (1 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
13	34	Ti is farthest from the confluence of the Olni and Vosk; downriver from Ti is Port Olni; these were the first two cities to form a league, originally intended for the control of river pirates and the protection of inland shipping; later, downriver from Port Olni, Vonda, and Lara, lying at the juncti...	10

Book 15. (1 results) Rogue of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
18	19	"The power of Port Cos marches with the men of Port Cos," said the man.	10

Book 16. (3 results) Guardsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
9	96	The Tamira, her port shearing blade passing to port like a quarter moon of steel, slid past our hull, between us and the Olivia.	10
9	358	The Tais, dark, low in the water, beautiful, scarred and lean, fierce, one of the most dangerous fighting ships in the navy of Port Cos, under the command of Calliodorus, captain in Port Cos, swept about the stern of the Tuka and the bow of the Tina.	10
20	117	In all, nineteen towns had become members of the League, Turmus, Ven, Tetrapoli, Port Cos, Tafa, Victoria, Fina, Ragnar's Hamlet, Hammerfest, Sulport, Sais, Siba, Jasmine, Point Alfred, Jort's Ferry, Forest Port, Iskander, Tancred's Landing and White Water.	10

Book 17. (2 results) Savages of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	105	In any event, in one way or another, many goods pass through Port Kar, mostly honestly one supposes, and many merchants come to Port Kar, even from Cos and Tyros, with which we are at war, to trade, and sometimes, I suspect, to see what bargains might be found, what results might have accrued from v...	10
2	117	The fellows in the delta, however, will normally pass barges through to Port Kar, and from Port Kar to the western Vosk region, though usually for a toll.	10

Book 18. (1 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
56	16	She, a former agent of Kurii, had fallen into the hands of one who had done service for Priest-Kings, one who had doings with Samos of Port Kar, one who was known to some as Tarl Cabot, to others as Bosk of Port Kar.	10

Book 20. (4 results) Players of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
5	270	"You cannot be Bosk of Port Kar!" "I am Bosk of Port Kar," I assured her.	10
13	28	"We meet again, Brinlar," he said, "or is it Bosk, of Port Kar?" "I am Bosk, of Port Kar," I said.	10
18	134	"In this trunk, sacked and shackled, at our mercy, lies an enemy of Brundisium, an arrogant fellow who dared to displease our throne, a captain and slaver of Port Kar, one of whom you may have heard, the supposedly mighty and redoubtable Bosk of Port Kar!" called out Belnar.	10
21	651	"Yes," he said, "yes!" "She is to be delivered to my holding, the holding of Bosk of Port Kar, in Port Kar," I said.	10

Book 23. (8 results) Renegades of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	150	It was almost as though the officers of Ar were content to exchange Ar for a port, and one which, strictly, was not even a Cosian port.	10
8	542	Too, I recalled she had been contemptuous of me, and haughty and cruel to me, in Port Kar, scorning even the memory of my love, when I had been paralyzed, helpless to move from a chair, the victim of the poison of Sullius Maximus, once one of the five Ubars of Port Kar, before the Sovereignty of the...	10
11	127	"You are Tarl, a fellow of Port Kar," he asked, "as you told my men upon the wall?" "I am Tarl," I said, "of Port Kar".	10
20	157	"It is the flag of Port Cos!" "The flag of Port Cos!" cried others.	10
21	748	Cos may have acted more judiciously in the matter, thinking that Port Cos might dominate the league, and that she, in turn, might exercise her own control over it, through the might of Port Cos".	10
21	1440	"I will, then," he said, "with your permission, deck the ship with flags, and bunting and banners, and put prominently the flag of Ar's Station on the port stern line, and fly that of Port Cos on the starboard stem line".	10
24	1	Port Cos "There," said Calliodorus, standing on the bow deck, "is the pharos of Port Cos".	10
24	229	"Oh!" said Publia, as one of the fellows of Port Cos lifted her up lightly in his arms and threw her over the rail of the port side of the bow deck.	10

Book 24. (4 results) Vagabonds of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	281	This was presumably out of a respect for the power of Port Cos, and her desire to influence, if not control, through Port Cos, the politics of the Vosk league, and, through it, the river, and the Vosk basin, as a whole.	10
1	349	It had been he who had managed to convey Ar's Station's half of the topaz to Port Cos, which action had resulted in the redemption of the pledge of the topaz, bringing the forces of Port Cos, and apparently, in the process, ships of the Vosk League, as well, to Ar's Station, to evacuate the piers, t...	10
13	166	"This barge," I said, "is of a type used in Port Kar, on the canals, and in the delta, for example, between Port Kar, and other cities, and the Vosk towns, particularly Turmus and Ven, for the transportation, in utter helplessness and total ignorance, of female slaves".	10
36	117	From Brundisium, a major port friendly to Cos, indeed, the port of entry for the Cosian invasion forces, it was convenient to ship loot, females and other loot, to Cos and the islands.	10

Book 25. (1 results) Magicians of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
14	670	"If you are of Port Kar," said a man, "I say 'Glory to Port Kar!'" "Glory to Port Kar!" whispered another.	10

Book 27. (1 results) Prize of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
28	323	The men clasped hands, and embraced, and then Bosk of Port Kar, Port Kar a port on the Tamber Gulf, rumored to be a den of cutthroats and pirates, and Marcus, of Ar's Station, once an outpost of Ar on the distant Vosk, took their leave.	10

Book 28. (2 results) Kur of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	149	In any event Tarl Cabot, having returned from the Barrens, and having learned later of his putative outlawry, resolved to leave the maritime city of Port Kar, only to return when it might be safe to do so, this intelligence to be gathered from agreed-upon secret signals to be displayed on the holdin...	10
79	200	Cabot had heard it in Port Kar, but attributed there judiciously to another origin, as little love was lost between Cos and Port Kar.	10

Book 29. (5 results) Swordsmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	176	In a moment of crisis, in a time of confusion and terror, when a vulnerable Port Cos awaited the onslaught of the combined fleets of Tyros and Cos, the word spread, the startling mysterious word, a word like the flash of lightning, a word striking through the darkness, a word as mighty as the rallyi...	10
2	231	The corsairs of Port Kar venturing at sea, prowling the merchant routes, unannouncedly visiting coastal towns, and such, often returned to port well freighted with various assortments of goods, fruits and grains, weapons, vessels, tools, leathers, viands and wines, precious metals and stones, divers...	10
22	258	I gathered he knew little or nothing of Bosk of Port Kar, or of the port itself.	10
28	392	Had I not understood that, long ago? Had I not then understood that she belonged, if at all, only under the whip? I recalled how badly she had treated me and how with such delight and venom she had scorned me in the holding of Samos of Port Kar, when I had been confined to the chair of an invalid, t...	10
30	23	The "port side," or left side of the vessel, facing forward, at least on Gor, and perhaps on Earth, may have received its name from keeping harbor buoys to one's left as the port is entered.	10

Book 30. (6 results) Mariners of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	302	It seems she was purchased by Samos of Port Kar, First Captain of the Council of Captains of Port Kar, and later came into the possession of another captain from Port Kar, Bosk of Port Kar, who freed her.	10
3	60	Some differences occur, port to port, Ubarate to Ubarate.	10
4	171	I advise you to turn about and lay to port, if you have a port.	10
16	117	"To port, to port!" cried Aëtius to the helm deck.	10
35	15	What would be its registry, its port of origin, who would be its master, what would be its business, its cargo? We waited behind the line of guardsmen, while the port's delegates approached the ship.	10
35	82	"The great port of Brundisium is a neutral port, open to all shipping," said Demetrion.	10

Book 31. (1 results) Conspirators of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	626	Was it not from the sea gates of Port Kar that the galleys of the dreaded Bosk, Bosk of Port Kar, clove the dark waters of restless Thassa? "At least," she said, "I was not sold in Port Kar".	10

Book 33. (1 results) Rebels of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
61	796	"You were brought to Port Kar after your purchasing in the northern forests by Samos of Port Kar," I said.	10

Book 34. (1 results) Plunder of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
23	191	My sources inform me that it is to Kurik of Victoria, in Brundisium, that the package is to be delivered, Brundisium, a great port, familiar with exotic cargos, unusual birds, mighty serpents, surprising beasts, a port where such cargos are not likely to elicit undue attention.	10

Book 35. (9 results) Quarry of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
36	56	He was said to be a paga fellow of Samos of Port Kar, who was First Slaver of Port Kar, and First Captain, or High Captain, in the Council of Captains, which body, as earlier noted, was sovereign in Port Kar.	10
5	72	I knew nothing of Port Kar, but I gathered that it would be a terrifying fate to be a female slave in Port Kar.	10
6	130	Brundisium is a major port, her mighty harbor berthing vessels from a thousand ports, vessels large and small, square-rigged and lateen-rigged, clinker built and carvel built, ships mercantile and naval, round ships and long ships, come from as far as Schendi in the south, and Torvaldsland to the no...	10
11	21	In transport, Rencers guide and maintain barges, poled, sailed, and drawn by large, swimming tharlarion, this linking, through the trackless marshes of the delta, the Vosk towns with Port Kar and the coast, and Port Kar and the coast with the Vosk towns.	10
14	217	Too, a thief in Brundisium is not likely to be a thief in Port Kar, nor a thief in Port Kar to be one in Brundisium.	10
20	96	Its contents were as follows: To the slave Zia, Paga Girl at the Golden Chain, Slave of Ho-Tosk, of Port Kar: You are herewith instructed to be on the Walkway of the Thieves' Way South, between the Scroll Shop of Brindlar, of Port Kar, and the paga tavern, the Whip and Chain, on this day, that of th...	10
24	72	Some days ago I had been brought by two guardsmen to the House of Samos, of Port Kar, First Captain of the Council of Captains, and First Slaver of Port Kar.	10
40	44	The motivation for my crawling forward, toward the head of the table, was that I had heard that the Alexia, one of the ships of Bosk of Port Kar, had recently anchored in the arsenal harbor, just this afternoon, from far Bazi, bearing tea, as the enterprises of Bosk of Port Kar were varied and widel...	10
46	191	"One of the finest dancers in Port Kar," said he who had recently joined the group, "is Sandra, a slave of Bosk of Port Kar, housed in his holding".	10

Book 36. (12 results) Avengers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
33	1	The Parley "You are, I take it," I said, "the dreaded Bosk of Port Kar, come from that port known to many as the Scourge of Thassa, that Bosk of Port Kar come to mercilessly pillage and plunder the innocent, peace-loving Farther Islands of Thassa, Thera, Chios, and Daphna?" "I am indeed he, Bosk, o...	10
13	76	"You are wrong! That is not true! We are not adherents of the terrible Bosk of Port Kar! We are not of Port Kar! We are not the men of Bosk, not he of Port Kar! That is a pretense, a sham, a disguise!" "I do not believe you," I said.	10
60	304	"Why," I asked, "would corsairs have pretended to be raiders from Port Kar, and have alleged themselves to be captained by Bosk of Port Kar? Why not from elsewhere, a hundred possible places, and why not otherwise captained, by anyone, even dozens of anonymous marauders?" "Bad blood has long existed...	10
1	239	The rumors of responsibility spread from village to village, from port to port, from island to island, spread like the wind, spread like raging flame through straw.	10
1	259	"Yes," said he, "where lies a citadel of ruthless cunning, of envy, violence, wrath, murder, and greed, of arrant ambition, a lawless, bestial port, feared from Torvaldsland to Schendi, a port the scourge of turbulent Thassa, a den of thieves and cutthroats, a lair of pirates, near whose walls fish ...	10
2	59	"As I understand this," said Aktis, "you are Bosk of Port Kar, and your fellows are of Port Kar, as well".	10
3	73	"Those of Port Kar, and of Bosk of Port Kar," I said.	10
5	90	"How could so many ships be concealed? Surely they, purportedly ships of Bosk of Port Kar, must be hunted relentlessly by Cos, a power at sea, an inveterate foe of Port Kar".	10
23	23	It carries him from port to port.	10
33	60	"And I, Bosk of Port Kar," he said, "am powerful in Port Kar.	10
58	124	"Away, to port! To port!" I called to the helmsmen.	10
59	153	"It is not every day," said a fellow near me, "that the fleet of the notorious Bosk of Port Kar is sunk and its very commander, the cruel and monstrous Bosk of Port Kar himself, is apprehended".	10