Dracula by Bram Stoker

Chapter 1

Jonathan Harker's Journal

Three May Bistritz

Left Munich at 8.35 pm on 1st May, arriving at Vienna early next morning, should have arrived

at 6.46 but train was an hour late.

Budapest seems a wonderful place from the glimps 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 Klausenberg.

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.

I asked the waiter and he said it was called Paprika Handel and that as it was a national

dish, I should be able to get it anywhere along the Carpithians.

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

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