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The story was that they had been attacked by more than a thousand rencers, abetted by a conjectured five hundred mercenaries, trained warriors, and had barely escaped with their lives. - (Raiders of Gor, Chapter 10, Sentence #56)

His name was Lysias. He had been a captain for only four months, having acquired the fifth ship, medium class, required. He was rather well known now in Port Kar, having lost six barges, with their slaves and cargo, and most of his crews, in the marshes. The story was that they had been attacked by more than a thousand rencers, abetted by a conjectured five hundred mercenaries, trained warriors, and had barely escaped with their lives. I was ready to grant him part of this story. But still, even in the face of such reputed odds as he had faced, there were those in Port Kar who smiled behind his back, thinking to themselves how he had gone forth with so fine a showing and had returned with little more than his life, a handful of terrified men, and a narrow wooden punt. Though his helmet still bore the two golden slashes, it now bore as well a crest of sleen hair, permitted only to captains. - (Raiders of Gor)