The Caste Streets

That portion of a city where slavers houses are located - slaves are bought and sold
"There are swords for hire?" asked Kuurus.
"Yes," said Portus, "and the rich Merchants, and the great houses, those on the Street of Coins, and on the Street of Brands, hire their own men." He smiled. "Further," said he, "Merchants arm and train squads of such men and rent them, for high wages, to the citizens of given streets and cylinders."
Kuurus lifted his paga bowl and drank.
Assassin

"I am that Portus," said he, "who is Master of the House of Portus."
Kuurus had heard of the House of Portus, one of the largest of the slave houses in the Street of Brands. He had known, of course, from the gown of blue and yellow silk that the man was a slaver.
"What is it you fear?" asked Kuurus.
"There is a house greater than mine, or any on the Street of Brands," said he.
"You fear this house?" asked Kuurus.
"Those of this house stand near the Administrator, and the High Initiate," said Portus.
"What do you mean?" asked Kuurus.
"The gold of this house is heavy in the councils of the city."
"The Administrator and the High Initiate," asked Kuurus, "owe their thrones to the gold of this house?"
Assassins

"It wants to be the single slave house of Ar," whispered Portus. Kuurus smiled. "My house," said Portus, "is twenty generations old. We have bred, captured, trained, exchanged and sold slaves for half a millennium. The house of Portus is known on all Gor." Portus looked down. "Already six houses on the Street of Brands have been purchased or closed."
Assassins

'I did ride once before on the back of a tarn,' she said bitterly, 'to Ar, bound across the saddle, before I was sold in the Street of Brands.'
Tarnsman

'Alone,' she said, 'I will be eaten by animals or found by soldiers.' She shuddered. 'At best, I would be picked up by slavers and sold in the Street of Brands.'
Tarnsman

'I want to see the market,' Talena said eagerly, and I knew the market she meant. This vast city of silk would surely have its Street of Brands. Reluctantly I took Talena to the great tent of blue and yellow silk, and we pressed in among the hot, smelling bodies of the buyers, forcing our way towards the front. There Talena watched, thrilled, as girls, several of whom she had known in the caravan, were placed on the large, rounded wooden block and sold, one by one, to the highest bidder.
Tarsnman

"Remove the mask," I suggested, "in order that I may better judge what you will bring on the Street of Brands."
Outlaw

That portion of a city where those of the Merchant Caste extend letters of credit, loans are negotiated, and general banking is done
SEE ALSO Banking on Gor
The fairs incidentally are governed by Merchant Law and supported by booth rents and taxes levied on the items exchanged. The commercial facilities of these fairs, from money changing to general banking, are the finest I know of on Gor, save those in Ar’s Street of Coins, and letters of credit are accepted and loans negotiated, though often at usurious rates, with what seems reckless indifference.
Priest Kings

In spite of having the respect, even to some degree the adulation, of almost all Goreans, the Players lived poorly. On the Street of Coins they found it difficult even to arrange loans. They were not popular with innkeepers, who would not shelter them unless paid in advance.
Assassins

I turned down one of the muddy streets, making my way between booths featuring the wares of pottery and weavers. It seemed to me that if 1 could find the fair's street of coins, that the makers of odds might well have set their tables there. It was, at any rate, a sensible thought.
"Where is the street of coins?" I asked a fellow, in the tunic of the tarnkeepers.
"Of which city?" he asked.
Beasts

On the way to the street of weapon makers I again passed the water carrier. His bag on his shoulder was now, again, damp, dark, bulging.
"Tal, Master," said he to me.
"Tal," said I to him.
I walked to the street of the weapon makers. I was anxious to make the acquaintance of the Tahari scimitar.
Tribesmen

I felt a rope thrown about my throat; it was drawn unpleasantly tight.
It was held in the hand of a black-haired girl, collared of course, long-legged, in brief slave livery.
"Greetings," said she, "Warrior." She jerked menacingly on the rope. "You are now the slave of the girls of the Street of Pots," she informed me.
Assassins

I opened the door and, not to my surprise, discovered that the Warrior and Tarn Keeper, preventing the girls from escaping, and having freed themselves in the moment of surprise and tumult in which I had seized the long-legged girl, had, probably one by one, while the other girls had looked on miserably, cuffed away if they tried to interfere, bound the girls of the Street of Pots.
Assassins

"Kajuralia," I said to her gently, and turned, and with the Warrior and the Tarn Keeper, arm in arm, with garlands of talenders, which had been several times replaced, woven about our necks, left the Street of Pots. "Kajuralia!" called the girls to us. "Kajuralia!" we responded.
Assassins

I turned down the street of the dealers in artifacts and curios. I was making my way toward the public tents in the vicinity of the amphitheater. It was there that the tables for the odds on the Kaissa matches might be found.
Beasts

I remembered he had sold carvings to a corpulent, gross fellow, one whose booth had been set up in the street of the dealers in artifacts and curios.
Beasts

I turned down the street of the rug makers.
Beasts

I had taken a large. room on the ground floor, behind a cloth-worker’s shop, just off the Street of Tapestries.
Explorers

As I was passing under the main arch of the stadium, going to the broad street beyond, called The Street of Tarns because of its proximity to the stadium, I heard a voice behind me. "Perhaps you did not enjoy the races?"
Assassins