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Thus are the farther islands sheltered, protected from illicit trade, and the wealth of Cos and Tyros conserved. - (Mariners of Gor, Chapter 2, Sentence #17)

We had heard no report, no rumors. Another day, and a junction with the long ships of Tyros, and we would return to Telnus. No ship, no vessel, might ply these waters without papers, bearing the seal of either Tyros or Cos. Thus are the farther islands sheltered, protected from illicit trade, and the wealth of Cos and Tyros conserved. "It is no illusion," said the captain, his eye to the glass. "What then?" asked his second officer, peering into the fog. The season was nearly over, the time when ships were taken from the water for their wintering, the time when rational mariners withdrew wisely from lashing, gleaming Thassa, leaving her, the mother, to her moods of violence, to her towering, rushing, lifting waves, higher than the masts of round ships, to her bitter storms and cruel ice. - (Mariners of Gor)