...a vast, disjointed mass of holdings, each almost a fortress,
piled almost upon one another, divided and crossed by hundreds of canals.
Raiders
In Port Kar,
incidentally, there are none of the towers often encountered in the northern
cities of Gor. The men of Port Kar had not chosen to build towers.
Raiders
Port is crossed with hundreds of canals, a few of them, the main ones
such as in the picture above, are large. Many more are small, for personal traffic
through residential areas, such as is here. ------>
..and here. Note also, buildings in Port Kar
are made of brick and stone.
Travel through Port is primarily by boat. Windows, if any, are up 15 feet off
ground level.
These boats, and those in the above picture, would roughly
represent a longboat described as used in the books for canal movement.
Merchants would use barges, similar to these, to
transport goods through the city.
Another of what would be the main
canals. In Port Kar, in the books, the main canals are the Rim Canal and the Ribbon Canal.
Here we see the narrow sloped
stone walkways. The walkways would be sloped slightly down toward the canals to
allow rainfall to spill into the canals. This is what we are commonly walking on and
in many of the pictures we don't even see this much of a walkway. Boats, in some
areas, are the only means of transportation
A canal in what is likely a
residential area. Note again, on the right side, the narrow walkways alongthe canal.
Have you noticed any gardens, lawns, wooded areas or farmlands in these
pictures? There are none. Gardens are precious and would be inside the walls
of the stone fortresses, small, perhaps on rooftops.
Here is a scene that resembles what a market area in Port Kar might be like
at night, with the hanging oil lamps lighting the walkways.
...a vast, disjointed mass of holdings, each almost a fortress,
piled almost upon one another, divided and crossed by hundreds of canals.
