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They come to the sea walls flying the merchant flag which, in virtue of Merchant Law, the only law common to civilized Gor other than the rules and dictates of Priest-Kings, normally allows access to a Gorean Port. - (Savages of Gor, Chapter 2, Sentence #107)

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. 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 various harvestings at sea, whether public or discreet. Indeed, sometimes, it seems that such merchants buy back their own goods. They come to the sea walls flying the merchant flag which, in virtue of Merchant law, the only law common to civilized Gor other than the rules and dictates of Priest-Kings, normally allows access to a Gorean Port. It is sometimes judicious, as well as profitable, to occasionally overlook a vessel's likely port of origin. Too, it is not unknown for Gorean ships, particularly merchantmen, to carry various flags and pennons, and fly whichever seem appropriate or politic in dangerous or contested waters. There is a joke in the city that Port Kar must have the greatest merchant fleet on Gor, greater than even those of Cos and Tyros combined, given the frequency with which our corsairs encounter the vessels of alleged compatriots. - (Savages of Gor, Chapter 2)