Schndi:   A large seaport which exists on the edge of the rainforests and jungle regions of Gor. A free city, governed under Merchant Law. The primary city of the black tribesmen of the Schendi, and home of the Legions of Black Slavers. Because of its position at the mouth of the Southern most part of the Cartius River, Schendi is a major trade center for various spices, raw minerals, and trade goods of the jungle regions. Most often if one is traveling by ship, they may pass the jungle shores, glancing upon and finding women bound, waiting to be sold, by those known as the Panther Women.

 

Pt. Schendi: It is located northwest of Schendi Harbor.

 

Schendi Harbor: The harbor is 8 pasangs wide, 2-3 pasangs deep, and opens onto the Nyoka River at the harbor's eastern end. The Nyoka flows from Lake Ushindi into Schendi Harbor, then into Thassa.

 

"Many goods pass in and out of Schendi,as would be the case in any major port, such as precious metals, jewels, tapestries, rugs, silks, horn and horn products, medicines, sugars and salts, scrolls, papers, inks, lumber, stone, cloth, ointments, perfumes, dried fruit, some dried fish, many root vegetables, chains, craft tools, agricultural implements, such as hoe heads and metal flail blades, wines and pagas, colorful birds and slaves.

Schendi's most significant exports are doubtless spice and hides, with kailiauk horn and horn products also being of great importance. One of her most delicious exports is palm wine.

One of her most famous and precious, exports are the small carved sapphires of Scehndi. These are generally a deep blue, but some are purple and others, interestingly, white or yellow. They are usually carved in the shape of tiny panthers, but sometimes other animals are found as well, usually small animals or birds. Sometimes however the stone is carved to resemble a tiny kailiauk or kailiauk head. Slaves, interestingly, do not count as one of the major produts in Schendi, in spite of the fact that the port is the headquarters of the League of Black Slavers.

The black slavers usually sell their catches nearer the markets, both to the north and south. One of the major markets,to which they generally arrange for the shipment of girls overland, is the Sardar Fairs, in particular that of En'Kara, which is the most extensive and finest. This is not to say of course that Schendi does not have excellant slave markets. It is a major Gorean port. The population of Schendi is probably about a million people. The great majority of these are black. Individuals of all races, however, Schendi being a cosmopolitan port, frequent the city."

'Explorers of Gor' p 115