Dracula By Bram Stoker
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CHAPTER 1
Jonathan Harker's Journal
3 May. Bistritz.--Left Munich at 8:35 P.M.,
on 1st May, arriving at
Vienna early next morning; should have arrived
at 6:46, but train was
an hour late. Buda-Pesth seems a wonderful place,
from the glimpse
which I got of it from the train and the little
I could walk through
the streets. I feared to go very far from the
station, as we had
arrived late and would start as near the correct
time as possible.
The impression I had was that we were leaving
the West and entering the
East; the most western of splendid bridges over
the Danube, which is
here of noble width and depth, took us among
the traditions of Turkish
rule.
We left in pretty good time, and came after
nightfall to Klausenburgh.
Here I stopped for the night at the Hotel Royale.
I had for dinner,
or rather supper, a chicken done up some way
with red pepper, which
was very good but thirsty. (Mem. get recipe
for Mina.) I asked the
waiter, and he said it was called "paprika
hendl," and that, as it was
a national dish, I should be able to get it
anywhere along the
Carpathians.
I found my smattering of German very useful
here, indeed, I don't know
how I should be able to get on without it.
Having had some time at my disposal when in
London, I had visited the
British Museum, and made search among the books
and maps in the
library regarding Transylvania; it had struck
me that some
foreknowledge of the country could hardly fail
to have some importance
in dealing with a nobleman of that country.
I find that the district he named is in the
extreme east of the
country, just on the borders of three states,
Transylvania, Moldavia,
and Bukovina, in the midst of the Carpathian
mountains; one of the
wildest and least known portions of Europe.
I was not able to light on any map or work
giving the exact locality
of the Castle Dracula, as there are no maps
of this country as yet to
compare with our own Ordance Survey Maps; but
I found that Bistritz,
the post town named by Count Dracula, is a fairly
well-known place. I
shall enter here some of my notes, as they may
refresh my memory when
I talk over my travels with Mina. . . . .
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