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To be sure, among northern coastal ports, it would not rank with Brundisium in this particular. - (Savages of Gor, Chapter 2, Sentence #102)

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. 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. - (Savages of Gor)