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Port Kar is sometimes referred to as the "Scourge of Thassa". - (Quarry of Gor, Chapter 11, Sentence #44)

By means of four large, deep canals, in which even two round ships could pass one another, one could, passing through the arsenal sea gates and the western and southern sea gates, communicate with the Tamber, and thence, shortly, with thassa, the sea. The reputation of Port Kar, I fear, is a dark one. I recalled the terror and misery in Euphrosyne's eyes and voice at the very mention of its name. Port Kar is sometimes referred to as the "Scourge of thassa". I think this epithet was generated in an earlier time when Port Kar had no Home Stone, when it may have been, indeed, little more than a "a den of pirates, thieves, and cutthroats," as dangerous to its own citizens as to its enemies, in particular, the great maritime Ubarates of Cos and Tyros. Indeed, many of the buildings abutting directly on the canals, those fortresslike dwellings earlier alluded to, may have been designed originally to provide a defense not so much against foreign aggressors as local, domestic predation. It is interesting that men who might rob and slay one another without thought or compunction when ashore will when at sea, and "of the ship," as it is said, constitute a reliable, loyal, efficient, disciplined crew. - (Quarry of Gor, Chapter 11)