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In many places, a portal can be reached only by means of a vessel, commonly one of the small single-oared skiffs which ply the canals. - (Quarry of Gor, Chapter 11, Sentence #2)

The tavern light had been low and poor, to be sure, and I had had only a fleeting glance at him, looking up through my hair, as he had turned his head away, but I was sure I knew him. I recognized the scar on his face, as I had seen it before, in Brundisium, that scar on the right side of his face, low, to the right of his mouth, that small, triangular scar. Euphrosyne; I Encounter a Former Acquaintance, One I Had Known on Earth, Who Now Sees Me as I Am Within the sprawling seawalls of Port Kar there are many canals, perhaps hundreds, fed with the waters of the Tamber Gulf. In many places, a portal can be reached only by means of a vessel, commonly one of the small single-oared skiffs which ply the canals. The sides of buildings often seem to rise from the very waters of the canal itself. In this way, many of the buildings, worn and stained, often touched with lichen, dampened by the lapping waters, swelling and ebbing with the tides of the gulf, are, in effect, island fortresses. In many places, windows, several feet above the level of the canal, may serve as coigns of vantage, and ports for the discharge of missiles. - (Quarry of Gor)