Chapter 1

D R A C U L A

Bram Stoker


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Copyright, 1897, in the United States of America, according
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MY DEAR FRIEND
HOMMY-BEG

DRACULA

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CHAPTER I
JONATHAN HARKER'S JOURNAL
(Kept in shorthand.)

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.