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1 week ago
I had for breakfast more paprika, and a sort of porridge of maize flour which they said was “mamaliga,” and egg-plant stuffed with forcemeat, a very excellent dish, which they call “impletata.” (Mem., get recipe for this also.) I had to hurry breakfast, for the train started a little before eight, or rather it ought to have done so, for after rushing to the station at 7:30 I had to sit in the carriage for more than an hour before we began to move. Count Dracula had directed me to go to the Golden Krone Hotel, which I found, to my great delight, to be thoroughly old-fashioned, for of course I wanted to see all I could of the ways of the country. I shall enter here some of my notes, as they may refresh my memory when I talk over my travels with Mina.
1 week ago
What ought they to be in China. I had for breakfast more paprika, and a sort of porridge of maize flour which they said was “mamaliga,” and egg-plant stuffed with forcemeat, a very excellent dish, which they call “impletata.” (Mem., get recipe for this also.) I had to hurry breakfast, for the train started a little before eight, or rather it ought to have done so, for after rushing to the station at 7:30 I had to sit in the carriage for more than an hour before we began to move. Towards morning I slept and was wakened by the continuous knocking at my door, so I guess I must have been sleeping soundly then. What ought they to be in China.
1 week ago
They wore high boots, with their trousers tucked into them, and had long black hair and heavy black moustaches.
1 week ago
At the very beginning of the seventeenth century it underwent a siege of three weeks and lost 13,000 people, the casualties of war proper being assisted by famine and disease. It takes a lot of water, and running strong, to sweep the outside edge of a river clear. Fifty years ago a series of great fires took place, which made terrible havoc on five separate occasions. At every station there were groups of people, sometimes crowds, and in all sorts of attire.