Chapter 1
Jonathan Harker's Journal3 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
