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It was crowded, as was often the case toward the end of a week or the end of a passage hand, that having to do with the paying of wages. - (Quarry of Gor, Chapter 46, Sentence #19)

But, for all I knew, he was himself a pirate and marauder. Might it not be clever to pose as one's own imposter, to rob and burn, pretending to be one's own self? How cunning to seize loot for oneself and meanwhile feign outrage over the supposed exploits of a masquerading other! I knelt and served paga to a table, lowering my head and extending my arms. It was late in the low-ceilinged, lamp-hung hall of the Golden Chain. It was crowded, as was often the case toward the end of a week or the end of a passage hand, that having to do with the paying of wages. There are twelve months in the Gorean calendar, each consisting of five five-day weeks, each followed by a five-day passage hand. The only exception is the five-day "Waiting Hand" which follows the Twelfth Passage Hand, and precedes the first day of the month of En'Kara, or En'Kara-La-Torvis, which is the vernal equinox, the first day of the Gorean New Year. In addition, a convoy of merchant ships, the grain fleet, five ships from Brundisium, guarded by three longships, were moored in the arsenal harbor. - (Quarry of Gor)