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[Toby G Levy]

        Mason does go out with Dixon, but Mason proves to be "a
difficult carousing partner" in that he talks about depressing topics
with women and gets so drunk that he falls asleep face first into his
food.

        Mason and Dixon have been working on fixing the altitude of the
star Shaula in the Scorpio constellation.

        After Mason wakes screaming from dreams in which people are
trying to kill him, Austra sends him to a pygmy named Toko of a tribe
that believes that the land of dreams is real and Mason returns with a
determination that he and Dixon should relate all their dreams to each
other.

        Mason says that his dreams are usually about how Capetown is
really Hell and the Dutch East India Company enacts the commands of the
Devil.

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        Dixon says his dreams are about partying every night.

        Mason is amazed at how much Dixon likes Capetown, saying that he
will miss it when he leaves. Where will he get Ketjap? Dixon says they
must sell it in London somewhere, and Mason replies it will cost him ten
times as much in London.

        Mason does as Toko suggests in his dream and stands up to his
assailant and manages to defeat him.  Toko has told Mason to demand
something of his assailant and Mason asks for the "Krees" or dagger that
his opponent used. He wakes up and finds it right next to his head, the
point almost in his nose. Dixon suggests that the knife was placed there
by one of the girls of the house.

        Mason resents Dixon's common sense explanation and Dixon says
that one of them must maintain sanity. Mason goes into a speech that
includes an analogy of resentment to excrement and Dixon expresses his
disgust.

Toby