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Few would take her as a "round ship," a cargo vessel, with its somewhat broader beam, higher gunwales, and capacity for freight. - (Avengers of Gor, Chapter 3, Sentence #12)

This instruction was called down to the helmsmen. From the Cove of Harpalos on Thera, I might take the Tesephone to the harbor of Sybaris. The Dorna, even disguised, even temporarily divested of its ram and shearing blades, still appeared too much a ship of war, which, indeed, it was, a knife ship. Few would take her as a "round ship," a cargo vessel, with its somewhat broader beam, higher gunwales, and capacity for freight. Too, I feared the Dorna, even disguised, might be recognized. It was not unknown on Thassa, particularly in the contested waters between Port Kar and the major marine ubarates, Cos and Tyros. It was my pretense that the Dorna, now referred to as the Korinna on the Cove of Harpalos papers, was a knife ship converted to freight duty, a pretense now accepted by the Cove authorities, due I suspect, first, to a judicious distribution of gold amongst them and, two, due to the fact that Therans, as well as those of Chios and Daphna, commonly failed to hold the insolent, exploitative, hegemonic tyranny of Cos in warm regard. - (Avengers of Gor)