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To be sure, most of the thieving, I gather, is done outside the city, in other cities, Port Kar then affording a refuge to which successful members of that unusual caste may repair to enjoy the profits of their labors. One may pass over the canals to the other side by means of bridges. These are usually arched, small, and easily burned. I have never been in a Gorean high city, a tower city, but I understand that the towers of such cities are often joined by graceful, narrow, arching bridges, often high above the street level, bridges which may be easily defended or destroyed in the case of an attack, this rendering each tower an independent, defensible keep, each supplied with food, water, and weaponry. One conjectures, similarly, that the vulnerability of many of the bridges in Port Kar, like ornamented, lanterned, lovely, painted tinder, is unlikely to be mere coincidence. A collapsed, charred bridge is not only an inconvenience to the progress of a foe, but an impediment should he wish to make an expeditious withdrawal. The walkway on the Thieves' Way was some ten feet in width, on both sides of the canal. - (Quarry of Gor, Chapter )