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onathan 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.