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It might be mentioned in passing that Port Kar's location, with its access to the Vosk Delta, its position in the Tamber Gulf, and its having gleaming Thassa herself lapping at her sea walls, is a not unenviable one for commerce. - (Savages of Gor, Chapter 2, Sentence #101)

Each girl is held well in her place, thusly, not only by the ankle and wrist stocks, which hold her ankles back and her wrists beside her, but by the plank collar as well. We were now using the barge, of course, for purposes of concealment. There are many such barges in Port Kar and, accordingly, little thought would be given to yet another of them in the canals. It might be mentioned in passing that Port Kar's location, with its access to the Vosk Delta, its position in the Tamber Gulf, and its having gleaming thassa herself lapping at her sea walls, is a not unenviable one for commerce. To be sure, among northern coastal ports, it would not rank with Brundisium in this particular. Also, to be candid, Port Kar is still muchly thought of on Gor, though she now has a Home Stone, as a lair of thieves, a den of pirates, and so on. There is some justification, of course, for this assessment as, usually after dark, it is not unknown for sleek, green ramships, low in the water, masts down, sometimes in their dozens, to emerge through the sea gates, bent on a business known to few but their captains and crews. - (Savages of Gor, Chapter 2)