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terms apply. pseudoscience

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of craniometry. Jonathan

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Harker's journal, kept in

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shorthand. The fifth of May,

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the castle. The

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grey of the morning has passed, and the

4:14

sun is high over the distant horizon, which

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seems jagged. Whether

4:20

with trees or hills, I know not, for

4:22

it is so far off that big things and little

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are mixed. I

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am not sleepy, and as I am not

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to be called till I awake, naturally

4:31

I write till sleep comes. There

4:35

are many odd things to put down,

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and Lester reads them may fancy

4:41

that I dine too well before I left

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Bistritz. Let me put down my

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dinner exactly. I dined

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on what they call robber steak. Bits

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of bacon, onion and beef, seasoned

4:53

with red pepper, and strung

4:55

up on sticks and roasted over the fire, in

4:57

the simple style of the London Cats meat. The

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wine was golden mediate, which

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produces a queer sting on the

5:06

tongue, which is, however, not disagreeable.

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I had only a couple of glasses of this and

5:12

nothing else. When

5:14

I got on the coach, the driver had

5:16

not taken his seat, and I

5:18

saw him talking with the landlady. They

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were evidently talking of me, for every now and

5:23

then they looked at me and some of the

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people who were sitting on the bench outside the

5:27

door, which they call by

5:30

a name meaning word-bearer, came

5:32

and listened, and then looked at

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me, most of them pittingly. I

5:38

could hear a lot of words often repeated, queer

5:41

words, for there were many nationalities

5:43

in the crowd. So

5:45

I quietly got my polyglot dictionary from

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my bag and looked them out. I

5:51

must say they were not cheering to me, for

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among them were Orrdog, Satan,

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Hohkor, Hel, Stregdor,

5:59

and the Goya, which Vrolok

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and Vrkoslak, both

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of which mean the same thing, one being

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Slovak and the other Servianth or something that is

6:10

either werewolf or vampire.

6:15

Memorandum, I must ask

6:17

the Count about these superstitions. When

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we started, the crowd round the

6:23

indoor which had by this time swelled to

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a considerable size all made

6:27

the sign of the cross and pointed

6:30

two fingers towards me. With

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some difficulty I got a fellow passenger to tell

6:35

me what they meant. He

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would not answer at first, but

6:39

on learning that I was English he explained that

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it was a charm or guard

6:44

against the evil eye. This

6:47

was not very pleasant for me, just

6:49

starting for an unknown place to meet an unknown

6:52

man. But everyone

6:55

seemed so kind-hearted and so

6:57

sorrowful and so sympathetic

6:59

that I could not but be touched.

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I shall never forget the last glimpse which I

7:04

had of the inyard and its

7:07

crowd of picturesque figures all crossing

7:09

themselves as they stood round the

7:11

wide archway, with its background

7:14

of rich foliage of ollieander and orange

7:16

trees and green tubs clustered in the

7:18

centre of the yard. Then

7:21

our driver, whose wide linen

7:23

drawers covered the whole front of the box

7:25

seat, gotsir they called them,

7:28

cracked his big whip over his

7:30

four small horses which ran abreast,

7:32

and we set off on our

7:34

journey. I

7:39

soon lost sight and recollection of ghostly

7:42

fears in the beauty of the scene

7:44

as we drove along. Although

7:46

had I known the language, or rather

7:49

languages which my fellow passengers were

7:51

speaking, I might not have

7:53

been able to throw them off so easily. Before

7:57

us lay a green sloping

7:59

land for the of forests and woods, with

8:02

here and there steep hills, crowned

8:04

with clumps of trees or with

8:06

farm houses, the blank gable

8:09

end to the road. There

8:12

was everywhere a bewildering mass of fruit

8:14

blossom, apple, plum,

8:16

pear, cherry, and

8:18

as we drove by I could see the green

8:20

grass under the trees, spangled with

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the fallen petals. In

8:26

and out amongst these green hills of

8:28

what they called the Mittleland ran

8:31

the road, losing

8:33

itself as it swept round the

8:35

grassy curve or was shut

8:37

out by the straggling ends of pine woods,

8:40

which here and there ran down the hillsides like

8:43

tongues of flame. The

8:46

road was rugged, but still we

8:48

seemed to fly over it with a feverish

8:50

haste. I

8:52

could not understand then what the haste meant, but

8:55

the driver was evidently bent on losing

8:57

no time in reaching Borgo Pründe. I

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was told that this road is in

9:04

summertime excellent, but that it

9:06

had not yet been put in order after the

9:08

winter snows. In

9:11

this respect, it is different from the general

9:13

run of roads in the Carpathians, for

9:15

it is an old tradition that they are not to

9:17

be kept in too good order. Of

9:20

old the Hospidars would not repair

9:22

them lest the Turk should think that they

9:25

were preparing to bring in foreign troops and

9:27

so hasten the war which was always rarely

9:29

at loading point. Beyond

9:32

the green swelling hills of the

9:34

Mittleland rose mighty slopes of forest

9:36

up to the lofty steeps of

9:38

the Carpathians themselves. Right

9:41

and left of us they towered, with

9:44

the afternoon sun falling full upon

9:46

them and bringing out all the

9:48

glorious colours of this beautiful range. Deep

9:51

blue and purple in the shadows of the peaks,

9:53

green and brown where grass and rock

9:55

mingled, and an endless perspective

9:58

of jagged rock and pointed crack. bags,

10:01

till these were themselves lost in the

10:03

distance, where the snowy

10:05

peaks rose grandly. Here

10:09

and there seemed mighty rifts in the mountains, through

10:12

which, as the sun began to sink,

10:14

we saw now and then the white

10:16

gleam of falling water. One

10:19

of my companions touched my arm, as

10:21

we swept round the base of the hill

10:23

and opened up the lofty snow-covered peak of

10:25

a mountain, which seemed, as

10:27

we wound, on our serpentine way to

10:30

be right before us. Look,

10:33

Istin sike, God's

10:35

seat. And he crossed

10:37

himself reverently. As

10:39

we wound on our endless way, and the

10:42

sun sank lower and lower behind us, the

10:45

shadows of the evening began to creep round

10:47

us. This was

10:49

emphasized by the fact that the snowy

10:51

mountain-top still held the sunset, and

10:54

seemed to glow out with a delicate, cool

10:56

pink. Here

10:59

and there we passed cheques and slovaks, all

11:01

in picturesque attire, but I

11:03

noticed that goiter was painfully prevalent.

11:06

By the roadside were many crosses,

11:08

and as we swept by, my

11:11

companions all crossed themselves. Here

11:13

and there was a peasant man or woman kneeling

11:15

before a shrine, who did

11:17

not even turn round as we approached, but

11:19

seemed, in the self-surrender of devotion, to have neither

11:22

eyes nor ears for the outer world. There

11:25

were many things new to me, for instance,

11:27

harerics in the trees. And

11:30

here and there, very beautiful masses of

11:32

weeping birch, their

11:34

white stem shining like silver through

11:36

the delicate green of the leaves.

11:39

Now and again we passed a lighter veg, the

11:42

ordinary Peasants' Cart, with

11:45

its long, snake-like vertebra calculated to suit

11:47

the inequalities of the road. On

11:50

this were sure to be seated quite a

11:52

group of homecoming peasants, the

11:54

cheques with their whites and the slovaks

11:56

with their coloured sheepskins, the

11:59

latter carrying lance- fashion their long staves

12:01

with axe at end. As

12:03

the evening fell, it began to get

12:05

very cold, and the growing

12:08

twilight seemed to merge into one dark

12:10

mistiness the gloom of the trees, oak,

12:13

beach and pine. Though

12:15

in the valleys which ran deep between the

12:18

spurs of the hills, as we ascended through

12:20

the pass, the dark fur

12:22

stood out here and there against the

12:24

background of late lying snow. Sometimes,

12:28

as the road was cut through the pine woods

12:30

that seemed in the darkness to be closing down

12:33

upon us, great masses

12:35

of grayness which here and there

12:37

bestrewed the trees produced a

12:39

peculiarly weird and solemn effect

12:42

which carried on the thoughts and grim

12:45

fancies engendered earlier in the evening, when

12:48

the falling sun set through into strange

12:50

relief that ghosts like clouds which amongst

12:53

the Carpathians seemed to whine ceaselessly

12:56

through the valleys. Sometimes,

12:58

the hills were so steep that despite

13:00

our driver's haste, the horses could only

13:02

go slowly. I

13:05

wished to get down and walk up them as we do

13:07

at home, but the driver would not hear of it. No,

13:10

no, he said. You must not

13:12

walk here. The dogs are too

13:15

fierce. And then, he added, with

13:18

what he evidently meant for grim

13:20

pleasantry, he looked round to catch

13:22

the approving smile of the rest, and

13:26

you may have enough of such

13:28

matters before you go to

13:30

sleep. The only

13:32

stop he would make was a moment's pause to

13:34

light his lamps. When it grew

13:36

dark, there seemed to be

13:39

some excitement amongst the passengers, and they

13:41

kept speaking to him one after the

13:43

other, as though urging him to

13:45

further spide him. He lashed the horses unmercifully with his

13:47

long wing,

13:50

and with wild cries of encouragement urged

13:53

them on to further exertions. Then,

13:57

through the darkness, I could see his