Original sentence: Once in the Holy Land proper, his tone shifted again, this time to a combination of light-hearted comedy and a reverence not unlike what he had previously mocked in his traveling companions.This equivocal reaction to the religious history the narrator encounters may be magnified by the prejudices of the time, as the United States was still primarily a Protestant nation at that point
Edited sentence: Interestingly, once in the Holy Land proper, his tone shifted again, this time to a combination light-hearted comedy and a reverence not unlike what he had previously mocked in his traveling companions.This equivocal reaction to the religious history the narrator encounters may be magnified by the prejudices of the time, as the United States was still primarily a Protestant nation at this point