MD3PAD 259-261

[Toby G Levy]

        The ship docks and the crew busies itself unloading the cargo.
Mason and Dixon feel like "supercargo." The women who come to greet the
arriving ships seem much more forward than even the women of Capetown
and Dixon is delighted and breaks out into song.

        Various people are attracted to arriving ships, including
thieves and salesmen, selling everything from love potions to early
versions of travel mugs. There are also evangelists, among them
followers of Revd MacClenaghan. And Quakers too are out in the streets
proselytizing.

        The scene shifts back to the LeSpark house where Wicks bemoans
the fact that religion appears to now be in decline in America. Wicks
believes that the outburst of "born again" Christianity helped spur the
revolution. Others in the family room are not so sure.

Toby