Take note that the city is 25 pasang (17.5 earth miles) deep and 15 pasang (10.5 earth miles) long. That's a LOT of city to walk. It’s advised to avail yourself to fee carts and other transportation. The only vaild points of entry is through the Sun Gate located along the Vosk Road, or by ship. The actual Market Place and City Square comprise approximately 5 pasang (3.5 earth miles) by 7 pasang (5 earth miles). Of the 15 pasang of shoreline all but approximately 7 pasang (5 earth miles) are dedicated to shipping docks, piers and warehouses, which take up approximately 3 pasang (2 earth miles) deep. The balance of coastline is mostly private property.
Geographical Location of Victoria
Victoria is a port town on the north shore of the Vosk River, bordered inland by the Vosk Road. Her direct neighbors are Tafa to the west, and Fina to the east. Historically, her past is tarnished by a large battle between the Vosk towns and the Vosk pirates in 10,127 C.A. Victoria is the headquarters of the Vosk League.
I turned away from the block in the barnlike structure in Fina, one of the many towns on the Vosk. ...
The next towns west on the river were Victoria and Tafa. West of Tafa was Port Cos, which had been founded by settlers from Cos over a century ago. The major towns west of Port Cos, discounting minor towns, were Tetrapoli, Ven and Turmus, Ven at the junction of the Ta-Thassa Cartius and the Vosk, and Turmus, at the eastern end of the Vosk's great delta, the last town on the river itself.
Rogue of Gor, pages 90, 97.
Most of the major towns on the Vosk are on the northern bank. This is undoubtedly because of a one-time policy of Ar to maintain a margin of desolation to the north, one stretching to the river, across which it would be difficult Zor an invader to bring an army.
Rogue of Gor, page 711.
"Both Port Cos and Ar's Station fought on the river, in terrible and bloody battles, hull to hull. After the final victory over the pirates, which took place at Victoria in 10,127 C.A., the parts of the stone came into the keeping of Calliodorus, at that time acting first captain in Port Cos, and Aemilianus, who was at that time commander of the naval forces of Ar's Station. The pledge was renewed privately between them, Ithink, as comrades in arms, as Ar's Station was not permittedby Ar to join the Vosk League."
Rogue of Gor, pages 525-526.
While the trade markets keep the town thriving well, and as such, a wide variety of goods are found in her market places, Victoria is more notable infamous for her slave trade comprised mostly of captives, often at the hands of river pirates. She is almost as notorious as Port Kar in this regard.
“Avoid Victoria,” he said. “Why?” I asked. “Are you a slaver?” he asked. “No,” I said. “Then avoid Victoria,” he said. “Why?” I asked. “It is a den of thieves,” he said. “It is little more than a market and slave town." “There is an important slave market there?” I asked. “You can sometimes get cheap prices on luscious goods there,” he said. “Why are the prices sometimes so cheap?” I asked. “Girls who cost nothing can be sold cheaply,” he said. “The marketed girls are then primarily captures?” I asked. “Of course,” he said. “I do not understand,” I said. “It is well known on the river,” he said. “What is well known?” I asked “That Victoria is one of the major outlets for the merchandise of river pirates."
Rogue of Gor, pages 97-98.
“What am I offered for this girl?” called the auctioneer. “What am I offered for this girl?" It was a blond-haired peasant girl, thick-ankled and sturdy, from south of the Vosk. She was being sold from a rough platform on the wharves of Victoria. She wore a chain collar. “Two tarsk bits,” came a call from the crowd. I pressed through the throngs on the wharves. The wharves were crowded with goods and men. The masts of river galleys bristled at the quays. There was the smell of the river, and fish.
Rogue of Gor, pages 99.
In any such camp, of course, and there had been in this one, there are usually several merchants. These are generally both wholesalers and retailers, but primarily wholesalers, for retailers are usually indigenous to given cities. These wholesalers usually distribute to retailers, in their individual cities, or, often, also, in well-known slaving centers, of which there are many, for example, Ar, Ko-ro-ba, Venna, Vonda, Victoria, on the Vosk, Market of Semris, Besnit, Esalinus, Harfax, Corcyrus, Argentum, Torcadino, and others. Most of the wholesalers, I suppose, do have permanent headquarters, somewhere, but they, or their agents, often frequent these camps, as well, availing themselves of the considerable advantages accruing to their trade in such places.
Dancer of Gor, page 160.
“Is Victoria not a market town,” I said, “a major market for slaves, wholesale and retail? Are not many slaves disposed of there? Do not buyers come there, even from far beyond the Vosk basin?”
“It is the major slave market on the Vosk,” he said.
Smugglers of Gor, page 543.
I had been sold in Victoria, from the wharf market, and later, following being ferried across the Vosk and transported in one of four slave wagons south, ankles chained, with five others, to a central bar in the wagon bed, had been again sold, in Torcadino, as a work slave to a mill. From that bondage I had been again sold, to me inexplicably, the first of several sales that saw me vended, usually after only a few weeks, sometimes a few days, out of one city or town, or even village, to another.
Plunder of Gor, page 152.
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