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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, Chapter 2, Sentence #105)

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. 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. - (Savages of Gor)