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[Toby G Levy]

        Stig says that his contract with Sweden expires in a year and
after that he could be an agent for somebody else, perhaps the American
revolutionaries.

        Mr Warford wonders how chopping down trees will "help the Swedes
take Philadelphia back."  Stig suggests it is helpful to stay vigorous
and healthy while preparing.

        Zsuzsa Szabo admires Stig's soldierly pursuits. She dislikes
being in the woods and Eliza Fields agrees with her.

        The crew forges west and soon they are past most settlements.
They are now in the area of the last indian war, which is actually still
being fought.  Veterans of Braddock's Defeat depress the company with war
stories.

        They are now 165 miles west of their starting point at the "post
marked west." They are just two miles short of Savage Mountain, which is
as far as they are supposed to go.  They turn around and head east,
widening the visto.

        Zhang once more advises Mason and Dixon that drawing a line to
divide people is a bad thing.  Dixon points out that there is slavery in
Maryland and not in Pennsylvania. Zhang says that there is slavery in
Pennsylvania but it is more subtle. He says that some might not even
know they are slaves.

Toby