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[Toby G Levy]

        Mason and Dixon sit down on a stoop to eat mangoes together.
Wicks explains that he would have left by now but that they did not want
any clergy aboard the Seahorse on the return voyage. Captain Grant was
looking for revenge against the French for his previous battles.  Dixon
tells Wicks that he might have to masquerade as non-clergy to get aboard
a ship out of Capetown. Dixon says he can within five minutes teach
Wicks all he needs to know in order to act as an astronomer. Mason says
he can teach Wicks to act like a surveyor in just three minutes.

        Mason goes to great lengths to complain about all the mutton in
the Dutch diet in Capetown and Wicks writes in his journal that night of
Mason's problems having to do with problems relating to the Eucharist.

        Chapter 9 begins on page 87 with Johanna Vroom (called "Vrou
Vroom" so as to pun the sound of a racing car engine) cornering Mason in
an upper bedroom, declaring herself a wicked woman and tearing open her
bodice.

Toby