Why do you think MacLennan included the following text in this novel:"A commonplace ship, certainly foreign and probably of Mediterranean origin, manned by heaven knew what conglomeration of Levantines, with maybe a Scotsman in the engine-room and a renegade Nova Scotia somewhere in the forecastle. The war had brought so many of these mongrel vessels to Halifax, they had become a part of the landscape."(24, Sunday) Why might this information be significant?