Field notes from the city of Rhak Izeh. The southernmost tip of the northern lands and the starting point of the old cross-plateau caravans, today superseded in function by dune skimmers and heavy freight runner. Its port is a mojor interloading facility. Cargo from the barges, sent from the ports at the mouth of the river, is loaded onto runners, gigantic trucks that cross the Plateau. A mess of small repair shops, warehouses and slums grew around it











