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To my left was the canal; to my right were buildings, some portaled with stout, carved doorways, their associated barred gates now open, to be closed at dark, and several housing open-sided stores and shops, furnished with folding, wooden screens, to be shut after the time of business, which, as with most Gorean businesses, opened at daylight, and closed either in the early afternoon or at dusk. - (Quarry of Gor, Chapter 11, Sentence #39)

One conjectures, similarly, that the vulnerability of many of the bridges in Port Kar, like ornamented, lanterned, lovely, painted tinder, is unlikely to be mere coincidence. A collapsed, charred bridge is not only an inconvenience to the progress of a foe, but an impediment should he wish to make an expeditious withdrawal. The walkway on the Thieves' Way was some ten feet in width, on both sides of the canal. To my left was the canal; to my right were buildings, some portaled with stout, carved doorways, their associated barred gates now open, to be closed at dark, and several housing open-sided stores and shops, furnished with folding, wooden screens, to be shut after the time of business, which, as with most Gorean businesses, opened at daylight, and closed either in the early afternoon or at dusk. I was well within a pasang of the great arsenal of Port Kar, with its warehouses, shops, vast shipyard, and inner harbor. By means of four large, deep canals, in which even two round ships could pass one another, one could, passing through the arsenal sea gates and the western and southern sea gates, communicate with the Tamber, and thence, shortly, with Thassa, the sea. The reputation of Port Kar, I fear, is a dark one. - (Quarry of Gor)