MDMD(0): Chapter 3 detail

[Jeremy Osner]

andrew at cee.hw.ac.uk wrote:
> 
> Chapter 3: Wicks reveals that he has reconstructed the previous scene
> and we return to Mason & Dixon in a pub in Portsmouth, probably in
> December 1760 or early January 1761. 

I was a bit confused at the beginning of chapter 3; the conversation
between M&D is set in a "Saloon", however Dixon keeps urging that they
should go somewhere where they can drink -- implying that they can not
do so where they are. Is an alternate meaning of "Saloon" in use here,
or did I mix up the sequence of events?

Jeremy