+ + + + "The next morning Felix went out to his work, and after the usual + occupations of Agatha were finished, the Arabian sat at the feet of the + old man, and taking his guitar, played some airs so entrancingly + beautiful that they at once drew tears of sorrow and delight from my + eyes. She sang, and her voice flowed in a rich cadence, swelling or + dying away like a nightingale of the woods. + + "When she had finished, she gave the guitar to Agatha, who at first + declined it. She played a simple air, and her voice accompanied it in + sweet accents, but unlike the wondrous strain of the stranger. The old + man appeared enraptured and said some words which Agatha endeavoured to + explain to Safie, and by which he appeared to wish to express that she + bestowed on him the greatest delight by her music. + + "The days now passed as peaceably as before, with the sole alteration + that joy had taken place of sadness in the countenances of my friends. + Safie was always gay and happy; she and I improved rapidly in the + knowledge of language, so that in two months I began to comprehend most + of the words uttered by my protectors. + + "In the meanwhile also the black ground was covered with herbage, and + the green banks interspersed with innumerable flowers, sweet to the + scent and the eyes, stars of pale radiance among the moonlight woods; + the sun became warmer, the nights clear and balmy; and my nocturnal + rambles were an extreme pleasure to me, although they were considerably + shortened by the late setting and early rising of the sun, for I never + ventured abroad during daylight, fearful of meeting with the same + treatment I had formerly endured in the first village which I entered. + + "My days were spent in close attention, that I might more speedily + master the language; and I may boast that I improved more rapidly than + the Arabian, who understood very little and conversed in broken + accents, whilst I comprehended and could imitate almost every word that + was spoken. + + "While I improved in speech, I also learned the science of letters as + it was taught to the stranger, and this opened before me a wide field + for wonder and delight. + + "The book from which Felix instructed Safie was Volney's Ruins of + Empires. I should not have understood the purport of this book had not + Felix, in reading it, given very minute explanations. He had chosen + this work, he said, because the declamatory style was framed in + imitation of the Eastern authors. Through this work I obtained a + cursory knowledge of history and a view of the several empires at + present existing in the world; it gave me an insight into the manners, + governments, and religions of the different nations of the earth. I + heard of the slothful Asiatics, of the stupendous genius and mental + activity of the Grecians, of the wars and wonderful virtue of the early + Romans--of their subsequent degenerating--of the decline of that mighty + empire, of chivalry, Christianity, and kings. I heard of the discovery + of the American hemisphere and wept with Safie over the hapless fate of + its original inhabitants. + + "These wonderful narrations inspired me with strange feelings. Was + man, indeed, at once so powerful, so virtuous and magnificent, yet so + vicious and base? He appeared at one time a mere scion of the evil + principle and at another as all that can be conceived of noble and + godlike. To be a great and virtuous man appeared the highest honour + that can befall a sensitive being; to be base and vicious, as many on + record have been, appeared the lowest degradation, a condition more + abject than that of the blind mole or harmless worm. For a long time I + could not conceive how one man could go forth to murder his fellow, or + even why there were laws and governments; but when I heard details of + vice and bloodshed, my wonder ceased and I turned away with disgust and + loathing. + + "Every conversation of the cottagers now opened new wonders to me. + While I listened to the instructions which Felix bestowed upon the + Arabian, the strange system of human society was explained to me. I + heard of the division of property, of immense wealth and squalid + poverty, of rank, descent, and noble blood. + + "The words induced me to turn towards myself. I learned that the + possessions most esteemed by your fellow creatures were high and + unsullied descent united with riches. A man might be respected with + only one of these advantages, but without either he was considered, + except in very rare instances, as a vagabond and a slave, doomed to + waste his powers for the profits of the chosen few! And what was I? Of + my creation and creator I was absolutely ignorant, but I knew that I + possessed no money, no friends, no kind of property. I was, besides, + endued with a figure hideously deformed and loathsome; I was not even + of the same nature as man. I was more agile than they and could + subsist upon coarser diet; I bore the extremes of heat and cold with + less injury to my frame; my stature far exceeded theirs. When I looked + around I saw and heard of none like me. Was I, then, a monster, a blot + upon the earth, from which all men fled and whom all men disowned? + + "I cannot describe to you the agony that these reflections inflicted + upon me; I tried to dispel them, but sorrow only increased with + knowledge. Oh, that I had forever remained in my native wood, nor + known nor felt beyond the sensations of hunger, thirst, and heat! + + "Of what a strange nature is knowledge! It clings to the mind when it + has once seized on it like a lichen on the rock. I wished sometimes to + shake off all thought and feeling, but I learned that there was but one + means to overcome the sensation of pain, and that was death--a state + which I feared yet did not understand. I admired virtue and good + feelings and loved the gentle manners and amiable qualities of my + cottagers, but I was shut out from intercourse with them, except + through means which I obtained by stealth, when I was unseen and + unknown, and which rather increased than satisfied the desire I had of + becoming one among my fellows. The gentle words of Agatha and the + animated smiles of the charming Arabian were not for me. The mild + exhortations of the old man and the lively conversation of the loved + Felix were not for me. Miserable, unhappy wretch! + + "Other lessons were impressed upon me even more deeply. I heard of the + difference of sexes, and the birth and growth of children, how the + father doted on the smiles of the infant, and the lively sallies of the + older child, how all the life and cares of the mother were wrapped up + in the precious charge, how the mind of youth expanded and gained + knowledge, of brother, sister, and all the various relationships which + bind one human being to another in mutual bonds. + + "But where were my friends and relations? No father had watched my + infant days, no mother had blessed me with smiles and caresses; or if + they had, all my past life was now a blot, a blind vacancy in which I + distinguished nothing. From my earliest remembrance I had been as I + then was in height and proportion. I had never yet seen a being + resembling me or who claimed any intercourse with me. What was I? The + question again recurred, to be answered only with groans. + + "I will soon explain to what these feelings tended, but allow me now to + return to the cottagers, whose story excited in me such various + feelings of indignation, delight, and wonder, but which all terminated + in additional love and reverence for my protectors (for so I loved, in + an innocent, half-painful self-deceit, to call them)." + + + + Chapter 14 + + "Some time elapsed before I learned the history of my friends. It was + one which could not fail to impress itself deeply on my mind, unfolding + as it did a number of circumstances, each interesting and wonderful to + one so utterly inexperienced as I was. + + "The name of the old man was De Lacey. He was descended from a good + family in France, where he had lived for many years in affluence, + respected by his superiors and beloved by his equals. His son was bred + in the service of his country, and Agatha had ranked with ladies of the + highest distinction. A few months before my arrival they had lived in + a large and luxurious city called Paris, surrounded by friends and + possessed of every enjoyment which virtue, refinement of intellect, or + taste, accompanied by a moderate fortune, could afford. + + "The father of Safie had been the cause of their ruin. He was a + Turkish merchant and had inhabited Paris for many years, when, for some + reason which I could not learn, he became obnoxious to the government. + He was seized and cast into prison the very day that Safie arrived from + Constantinople to join him. He was tried and condemned to death. The + injustice of his sentence was very flagrant; all Paris was indignant; + and it was judged that his religion and wealth rather than the crime + alleged against him had been the cause of his condemnation. + + "Felix had accidentally been present at the trial; his horror and + indignation were uncontrollable when he heard the decision of the + court. He made, at that moment, a solemn vow to deliver him and then + looked around for the means. After many fruitless attempts to gain + admittance to the prison, he found a strongly grated window in an + unguarded part of the building, which lighted the dungeon of the + unfortunate Muhammadan, who, loaded with chains, waited in despair the + execution of the barbarous sentence. Felix visited the grate at night + and made known to the prisoner his intentions in his favour. The Turk, + amazed and delighted, endeavoured to kindle the zeal of his deliverer + by promises of reward and wealth. Felix rejected his offers with + contempt, yet when he saw the lovely Safie, who was allowed to visit + her father and who by her gestures expressed her lively gratitude, the + youth could not help owning to his own mind that the captive possessed + a treasure which would fully reward his toil and hazard. + + "The Turk quickly perceived the impression that his daughter had made + on the heart of Felix and endeavoured to secure him more entirely in + his interests by the promise of her hand in marriage so soon as he + should be conveyed to a place of safety. Felix was too delicate to + accept this offer, yet he looked forward to the probability of the + event as to the consummation of his happiness. + + "During the ensuing days, while the preparations were going forward for + the escape of the merchant, the zeal of Felix was warmed by several + letters that he received from this lovely girl, who found means to + express her thoughts in the language of her lover by the aid of an old + man, a servant of her father who understood French. She thanked him in + the most ardent terms for his intended services towards her parent, and + at the same time she gently deplored her own fate. + + "I have copies of these letters, for I found means, during my residence + in the hovel, to procure the implements of writing; and the letters + were often in the hands of Felix or Agatha. Before I depart I will + give them to you; they will prove the truth of my tale; but at present, + as the sun is already far declined, I shall only have time to repeat + the substance of them to you. + + "Safie related that her mother was a Christian Arab, seized and made a + slave by the Turks; recommended by her beauty, she had won the heart of + the father of Safie, who married her. The young girl spoke in high and + enthusiastic terms of her mother, who, born in freedom, spurned the + bondage to which she was now reduced. She instructed her daughter in + the tenets of her religion and taught her to aspire to higher powers of + intellect and an independence of spirit forbidden to the female + followers of Muhammad. This lady died, but her lessons were indelibly + impressed on the mind of Safie, who sickened at the prospect of again + returning to Asia and being immured within the walls of a harem, + allowed only to occupy herself with infantile amusements, ill-suited to + the temper of her soul, now accustomed to grand ideas and a noble + emulation for virtue. The prospect of marrying a Christian and + remaining in a country where women were allowed to take a rank in + society was enchanting to her. + + "The day for the execution of the Turk was fixed, but on the night + previous to it he quitted his prison and before morning was distant + many leagues from Paris. Felix had procured passports in the name of + his father, sister, and himself. He had previously communicated his + plan to the former, who aided the deceit by quitting his house, under + the pretence of a journey and concealed himself, with his daughter, in + an obscure part of Paris. + + "Felix conducted the fugitives through France to Lyons and across Mont + Cenis to Leghorn, where the merchant had decided to wait a favourable + opportunity of passing into some part of the Turkish dominions. + + "Safie resolved to remain with her father until the moment of his + departure, before which time the Turk renewed his promise that she + should be united to his deliverer; and Felix remained with them in + expectation of that event; and in the meantime he enjoyed the society + of the Arabian, who exhibited towards him the simplest and tenderest + affection. They conversed with one another through the means of an + interpreter, and sometimes with the interpretation of looks; and Safie + sang to him the divine airs of her native country. + + "The Turk allowed this intimacy to take place and encouraged the hopes + of the youthful lovers, while in his heart he had formed far other + plans. He loathed the idea that his daughter should be united to a + Christian, but he feared the resentment of Felix if he should appear + lukewarm, for he knew that he was still in the power of his deliverer + if he should choose to betray him to the Italian state which they + inhabited. He revolved a thousand plans by which he should be enabled + to prolong the deceit until it might be no longer necessary, and + secretly to take his daughter with him when he departed. His plans + were facilitated by the news which arrived from Paris. + + "The government of France were greatly enraged at the escape of their + victim and spared no pains to detect and punish his deliverer. The + plot of Felix was quickly discovered, and De Lacey and Agatha were + thrown into prison. The news reached Felix and roused him from his + dream of pleasure. His blind and aged father and his gentle sister lay + in a noisome dungeon while he enjoyed the free air and the society of + her whom he loved. This idea was torture to him. He quickly arranged + with the Turk that if the latter should find a favourable opportunity + for escape before Felix could return to Italy, Safie should remain as a + boarder at a convent at Leghorn; and then, quitting the lovely Arabian, + he hastened to Paris and delivered himself up to the vengeance of the + law, hoping to free De Lacey and Agatha by this proceeding. + + "He did not succeed. They remained confined for five months before the + trial took place, the result of which deprived them of their fortune + and condemned them to a perpetual exile from their native country. + + "They found a miserable asylum in the cottage in Germany, where I + discovered them. Felix soon learned that the treacherous Turk, for + whom he and his family endured such unheard-of oppression, on + discovering that his deliverer was thus reduced to poverty and ruin, + became a traitor to good feeling and honour and had quitted Italy with + his daughter, insultingly sending Felix a pittance of money to aid him, + as he said, in some plan of future maintenance. + + "Such were the events that preyed on the heart of Felix and rendered + him, when I first saw him, the most miserable of his family. He could + have endured poverty, and while this distress had been the meed of his + virtue, he gloried in it; but the ingratitude of the Turk and the loss + of his beloved Safie were misfortunes more bitter and irreparable. The + arrival of the Arabian now infused new life into his soul. + + "When the news reached Leghorn that Felix was deprived of his wealth + and rank, the merchant commanded his daughter to think no more of her + lover, but to prepare to return to her native country. The generous + nature of Safie was outraged by this command; she attempted to + expostulate with her father, but he left her angrily, reiterating his + tyrannical mandate. + + "A few days after, the Turk entered his daughter's apartment and told + her hastily that he had reason to believe that his residence at Leghorn + had been divulged and that he should speedily be delivered up to the + French government; he had consequently hired a vessel to convey him to + Constantinople, for which city he should sail in a few hours. He + intended to leave his daughter under the care of a confidential + servant, to follow at her leisure with the greater part of his + property, which had not yet arrived at Leghorn. + + "When alone, Safie resolved in her own mind the plan of conduct that it + would become her to pursue in this emergency. A residence in Turkey + was abhorrent to her; her religion and her feelings were alike averse + to it. By some papers of her father which fell into her hands she + heard of the exile of her lover and learnt the name of the spot where + he then resided. She hesitated some time, but at length she formed her + determination. Taking with her some jewels that belonged to her and a + sum of money, she quitted Italy with an attendant, a native of Leghorn, + but who understood the common language of Turkey, and departed for + Germany. + + "She arrived in safety at a town about twenty leagues from the cottage + of De Lacey, when her attendant fell dangerously ill. Safie nursed her + with the most devoted affection, but the poor girl died, and the + Arabian was left alone, unacquainted with the language of the country + and utterly ignorant of the customs of the world. She fell, however, + into good hands. The Italian had mentioned the name of the spot for + which they were bound, and after her death the woman of the house in + which they had lived took care that Safie should arrive in safety at + the cottage of her lover." + + + + Chapter 15 + + "Such was the history of my beloved cottagers. It impressed me deeply. + I learned, from the views of social life which it developed, to admire + their virtues and to deprecate the vices of mankind. + + "As yet I looked upon crime as a distant evil, benevolence and + generosity were ever present before me, inciting within me a desire to + become an actor in the busy scene where so many admirable qualities + were called forth and displayed. But in giving an account of the + progress of my intellect, I must not omit a circumstance which occurred + in the beginning of the month of August of the same year. + + "One night during my accustomed visit to the neighbouring wood where I + collected my own food and brought home firing for my protectors, I + found on the ground a leathern portmanteau containing several articles + of dress and some books. I eagerly seized the prize and returned with + it to my hovel. Fortunately the books were written in the language, + the elements of which I had acquired at the cottage; they consisted of + Paradise Lost, a volume of Plutarch's Lives, and the Sorrows of Werter. + The possession of these treasures gave me extreme delight; I now + continually studied and exercised my mind upon these histories, whilst + my friends were employed in their ordinary occupations. + + "I can hardly describe to you the effect of these books. They produced + in me an infinity of new images and feelings, that sometimes raised me + to ecstasy, but more frequently sunk me into the lowest dejection. In + the Sorrows of Werter, besides the interest of its simple and affecting + story, so many opinions are canvassed and so many lights thrown upon + what had hitherto been to me obscure subjects that I found in it a + never-ending source of speculation and astonishment. The gentle and + domestic manners it described, combined with lofty sentiments and + feelings, which had for their object something out of self, accorded + well with my experience among my protectors and with the wants which + were forever alive in my own bosom. But I thought Werter himself a + more divine being than I had ever beheld or imagined; his character + contained no pretension, but it sank deep. The disquisitions upon + death and suicide were calculated to fill me with wonder. I did not + pretend to enter into the merits of the case, yet I inclined towards + the opinions of the hero, whose extinction I wept, without precisely + understanding it. + + "As I read, however, I applied much personally to my own feelings and + condition. I found myself similar yet at the same time strangely + unlike to the beings concerning whom I read and to whose conversation I + was a listener. I sympathized with and partly understood them, but I + was unformed in mind; I was dependent on none and related to none. + 'The path of my departure was free,' and there was none to lament my + annihilation. My person was hideous and my stature gigantic. What did + this mean? Who was I? What was I? Whence did I come? What was my + destination? These questions continually recurred, but I was unable to + solve them. + +
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+ + + "The next morning Felix went out to his work, and after the usual + occupations of Agatha were finished, the Arabian sat at the feet of the + old man, and taking his guitar, played some airs so entrancingly + beautiful that they at once drew tears of sorrow and delight from my + eyes. She sang, and her voice flowed in a rich cadence, swelling or + dying away like a nightingale of the woods. + + "When she had finished, she gave the guitar to Agatha, who at first + declined it. She played a simple air, and her voice accompanied it in + sweet accents, but unlike the wondrous strain of the stranger. The old + man appeared enraptured and said some words which Agatha endeavoured to + explain to Safie, and by which he appeared to wish to express that she + bestowed on him the greatest delight by her music. + + "The days now passed as peaceably as before, with the sole alteration + that joy had taken place of sadness in the countenances of my friends. + Safie was always gay and happy; she and I improved rapidly in the + knowledge of language, so that in two months I began to comprehend most + of the words uttered by my protectors. + + "In the meanwhile also the black ground was covered with herbage, and + the green banks interspersed with innumerable flowers, sweet to the + scent and the eyes, stars of pale radiance among the moonlight woods; + the sun became warmer, the nights clear and balmy; and my nocturnal + rambles were an extreme pleasure to me, although they were considerably + shortened by the late setting and early rising of the sun, for I never + ventured abroad during daylight, fearful of meeting with the same + treatment I had formerly endured in the first village which I entered. + + "My days were spent in close attention, that I might more speedily + master the language; and I may boast that I improved more rapidly than + the Arabian, who understood very little and conversed in broken + accents, whilst I comprehended and could imitate almost every word that + was spoken. + + "While I improved in speech, I also learned the science of letters as + it was taught to the stranger, and this opened before me a wide field + for wonder and delight. + + "The book from which Felix instructed Safie was Volney's Ruins of + Empires. I should not have understood the purport of this book had not + Felix, in reading it, given very minute explanations. He had chosen + this work, he said, because the declamatory style was framed in + imitation of the Eastern authors. Through this work I obtained a + cursory knowledge of history and a view of the several empires at + present existing in the world; it gave me an insight into the manners, + governments, and religions of the different nations of the earth. I + heard of the slothful Asiatics, of the stupendous genius and mental + activity of the Grecians, of the wars and wonderful virtue of the early + Romans--of their subsequent degenerating--of the decline of that mighty + empire, of chivalry, Christianity, and kings. I heard of the discovery + of the American hemisphere and wept with Safie over the hapless fate of + its original inhabitants. + + "These wonderful narrations inspired me with strange feelings. Was + man, indeed, at once so powerful, so virtuous and magnificent, yet so + vicious and base? He appeared at one time a mere scion of the evil + principle and at another as all that can be conceived of noble and + godlike. To be a great and virtuous man appeared the highest honour + that can befall a sensitive being; to be base and vicious, as many on + record have been, appeared the lowest degradation, a condition more + abject than that of the blind mole or harmless worm. For a long time I + could not conceive how one man could go forth to murder his fellow, or + even why there were laws and governments; but when I heard details of + vice and bloodshed, my wonder ceased and I turned away with disgust and + loathing. + + "Every conversation of the cottagers now opened new wonders to me. + While I listened to the instructions which Felix bestowed upon the + Arabian, the strange system of human society was explained to me. I + heard of the division of property, of immense wealth and squalid + poverty, of rank, descent, and noble blood. + + "The words induced me to turn towards myself. I learned that the + possessions most esteemed by your fellow creatures were high and + unsullied descent united with riches. A man might be respected with + only one of these advantages, but without either he was considered, + except in very rare instances, as a vagabond and a slave, doomed to + waste his powers for the profits of the chosen few! And what was I? Of + my creation and creator I was absolutely ignorant, but I knew that I + possessed no money, no friends, no kind of property. I was, besides, + endued with a figure hideously deformed and loathsome; I was not even + of the same nature as man. I was more agile than they and could + subsist upon coarser diet; I bore the extremes of heat and cold with + less injury to my frame; my stature far exceeded theirs. When I looked + around I saw and heard of none like me. Was I, then, a monster, a blot + upon the earth, from which all men fled and whom all men disowned? + + "I cannot describe to you the agony that these reflections inflicted + upon me; I tried to dispel them, but sorrow only increased with + knowledge. Oh, that I had forever remained in my native wood, nor + known nor felt beyond the sensations of hunger, thirst, and heat! + + "Of what a strange nature is knowledge! It clings to the mind when it + has once seized on it like a lichen on the rock. I wished sometimes to + shake off all thought and feeling, but I learned that there was but one + means to overcome the sensation of pain, and that was death--a state + which I feared yet did not understand. I admired virtue and good + feelings and loved the gentle manners and amiable qualities of my + cottagers, but I was shut out from intercourse with them, except + through means which I obtained by stealth, when I was unseen and + unknown, and which rather increased than satisfied the desire I had of + becoming one among my fellows. The gentle words of Agatha and the + animated smiles of the charming Arabian were not for me. The mild + exhortations of the old man and the lively conversation of the loved + Felix were not for me. Miserable, unhappy wretch! + + "Other lessons were impressed upon me even more deeply. I heard of the + difference of sexes, and the birth and growth of children, how the + father doted on the smiles of the infant, and the lively sallies of the + older child, how all the life and cares of the mother were wrapped up + in the precious charge, how the mind of youth expanded and gained + knowledge, of brother, sister, and all the various relationships which + bind one human being to another in mutual bonds. + + + |
+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. +
+ ++Having had some time at my disposal when in London, I had visited the +British Museum, and made search among the books and maps in the +library regarding Transylvania; it had struck me that some +foreknowledge of the country could hardly fail to have some importance +in dealing with a nobleman of that country. +
+ ++I find that the district he named is in the extreme east of the +country, just on the borders of three states, Transylvania, Moldavia, +and Bukovina, in the midst of the Carpathian mountains; one of the +wildest and least known portions of Europe. +
+ ++I was not able to light on any map or work giving the exact locality +of the Castle Dracula, as there are no maps of this country as yet to +compare with our own Ordance Survey Maps; but I found that Bistritz, +the post town named by Count Dracula, is a fairly well-known place. I +shall enter here some of my notes, as they may refresh my memory when +I talk over my travels with Mina. +
+ ++In the population of Transylvania there are four distinct +nationalities: Saxons in the South, and mixed with them the Wallachs, +who are the descendants of the Dacians; Magyars in the West, and +Szekelys in the East and North. I am going among the latter, who +claim to be descended from Attila and the Huns. This may be so, for +when the Magyars conquered the country in the eleventh century they +found the Huns settled in it. +
+ ++I read that every known superstition in the world is gathered into the +horseshoe of the Carpathians, as if it were the centre of some sort of +imaginative whirlpool; if so my stay may be very interesting. (Mem., +I must ask the Count all about them.) +
+ ++I did not sleep well, though my bed was comfortable enough, for I had +all sorts of queer dreams. There was a dog howling all night under my +window, which may have had something to do with it; or it may have +been the paprika, for I had to drink up all the water in my carafe, +and was still thirsty. Towards morning I slept and was wakened by the +continuous knocking at my door, so I guess I must have been sleeping +soundly then. +
+ ++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. +
+ ++It seems to me that the further east you go the more unpunctual are +the trains. What ought they to be in China? +
+ ++All day long we seemed to dawdle through a country which was full of +beauty of every kind. Sometimes we saw little towns or castles on the +top of steep hills such as we see in old missals; sometimes we ran by +rivers and streams which seemed from the wide stony margin on each +side of them to be subject to great floods. It takes a lot of water, +and running strong, to sweep the outside edge of a river clear. +
+ ++At every station there were groups of people, sometimes crowds, and in +all sorts of attire. Some of them were just like the peasants at home +or those I saw coming through France and Germany, with short jackets, +and round hats, and home-made trousers; but others were very +picturesque. +
+ ++The women looked pretty, except when you got near them, but they were +very clumsy about the waist. They had all full white sleeves of some +kind or other, and most of them had big belts with a lot of strips of +something fluttering from them like the dresses in a ballet, but of +course there were petticoats under them. +
+ + Index: page_load_test/scroll/tiled-fixed-downscale.html =================================================================== RCS file: page_load_test/scroll/tiled-fixed-downscale.html diff -N page_load_test/scroll/tiled-fixed-downscale.html --- /dev/null 1 Jan 1970 00:00:00 -0000 +++ page_load_test/scroll/tiled-fixed-downscale.html 24 Mar 2010 00:51:21 -0000 @@ -0,0 +1,142 @@ + + + + ++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. +
+ ++Having had some time at my disposal when in London, I had visited the +British Museum, and made search among the books and maps in the +library regarding Transylvania; it had struck me that some +foreknowledge of the country could hardly fail to have some importance +in dealing with a nobleman of that country. +
+ ++I find that the district he named is in the extreme east of the +country, just on the borders of three states, Transylvania, Moldavia, +and Bukovina, in the midst of the Carpathian mountains; one of the +wildest and least known portions of Europe. +
+ ++I was not able to light on any map or work giving the exact locality +of the Castle Dracula, as there are no maps of this country as yet to +compare with our own Ordance Survey Maps; but I found that Bistritz, +the post town named by Count Dracula, is a fairly well-known place. I +shall enter here some of my notes, as they may refresh my memory when +I talk over my travels with Mina. +
+ ++In the population of Transylvania there are four distinct +nationalities: Saxons in the South, and mixed with them the Wallachs, +who are the descendants of the Dacians; Magyars in the West, and +Szekelys in the East and North. I am going among the latter, who +claim to be descended from Attila and the Huns. This may be so, for +when the Magyars conquered the country in the eleventh century they +found the Huns settled in it. +
+ ++I read that every known superstition in the world is gathered into the +horseshoe of the Carpathians, as if it were the centre of some sort of +imaginative whirlpool; if so my stay may be very interesting. (Mem., +I must ask the Count all about them.) +
+ ++I did not sleep well, though my bed was comfortable enough, for I had +all sorts of queer dreams. There was a dog howling all night under my +window, which may have had something to do with it; or it may have +been the paprika, for I had to drink up all the water in my carafe, +and was still thirsty. Towards morning I slept and was wakened by the +continuous knocking at my door, so I guess I must have been sleeping +soundly then. +
+ ++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. +
+ ++It seems to me that the further east you go the more unpunctual are +the trains. What ought they to be in China? +
+ ++All day long we seemed to dawdle through a country which was full of +beauty of every kind. Sometimes we saw little towns or castles on the +top of steep hills such as we see in old missals; sometimes we ran by +rivers and streams which seemed from the wide stony margin on each +side of them to be subject to great floods. It takes a lot of water, +and running strong, to sweep the outside edge of a river clear. +
+ ++At every station there were groups of people, sometimes crowds, and in +all sorts of attire. Some of them were just like the peasants at home +or those I saw coming through France and Germany, with short jackets, +and round hats, and home-made trousers; but others were very +picturesque. +
+ ++The women looked pretty, except when you got near them, but they were +very clumsy about the waist. They had all full white sleeves of some +kind or other, and most of them had big belts with a lot of strips of +something fluttering from them like the dresses in a ballet, but of +course there were petticoats under them. +
+ + + Index: page_load_test/scroll/tiled-fixed.html =================================================================== RCS file: page_load_test/scroll/tiled-fixed.html diff -N page_load_test/scroll/tiled-fixed.html --- /dev/null 1 Jan 1970 00:00:00 -0000 +++ page_load_test/scroll/tiled-fixed.html 24 Mar 2010 00:51:21 -0000 @@ -0,0 +1,140 @@ + + + + ++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. +
+ ++Having had some time at my disposal when in London, I had visited the +British Museum, and made search among the books and maps in the +library regarding Transylvania; it had struck me that some +foreknowledge of the country could hardly fail to have some importance +in dealing with a nobleman of that country. +
+ ++I find that the district he named is in the extreme east of the +country, just on the borders of three states, Transylvania, Moldavia, +and Bukovina, in the midst of the Carpathian mountains; one of the +wildest and least known portions of Europe. +
+ ++I was not able to light on any map or work giving the exact locality +of the Castle Dracula, as there are no maps of this country as yet to +compare with our own Ordance Survey Maps; but I found that Bistritz, +the post town named by Count Dracula, is a fairly well-known place. I +shall enter here some of my notes, as they may refresh my memory when +I talk over my travels with Mina. +
+ ++In the population of Transylvania there are four distinct +nationalities: Saxons in the South, and mixed with them the Wallachs, +who are the descendants of the Dacians; Magyars in the West, and +Szekelys in the East and North. I am going among the latter, who +claim to be descended from Attila and the Huns. This may be so, for +when the Magyars conquered the country in the eleventh century they +found the Huns settled in it. +
+ ++I read that every known superstition in the world is gathered into the +horseshoe of the Carpathians, as if it were the centre of some sort of +imaginative whirlpool; if so my stay may be very interesting. (Mem., +I must ask the Count all about them.) +
+ ++I did not sleep well, though my bed was comfortable enough, for I had +all sorts of queer dreams. There was a dog howling all night under my +window, which may have had something to do with it; or it may have +been the paprika, for I had to drink up all the water in my carafe, +and was still thirsty. Towards morning I slept and was wakened by the +continuous knocking at my door, so I guess I must have been sleeping +soundly then. +
+ ++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. +
+ ++It seems to me that the further east you go the more unpunctual are +the trains. What ought they to be in China? +
+ ++All day long we seemed to dawdle through a country which was full of +beauty of every kind. Sometimes we saw little towns or castles on the +top of steep hills such as we see in old missals; sometimes we ran by +rivers and streams which seemed from the wide stony margin on each +side of them to be subject to great floods. It takes a lot of water, +and running strong, to sweep the outside edge of a river clear. +
+ ++At every station there were groups of people, sometimes crowds, and in +all sorts of attire. Some of them were just like the peasants at home +or those I saw coming through France and Germany, with short jackets, +and round hats, and home-made trousers; but others were very +picturesque. +
+ ++The women looked pretty, except when you got near them, but they were +very clumsy about the waist. They had all full white sleeves of some +kind or other, and most of them had big belts with a lot of strips of +something fluttering from them like the dresses in a ballet, but of +course there were petticoats under them. +
+ + + Index: page_load_test/scroll/tiled.html =================================================================== RCS file: page_load_test/scroll/tiled.html diff -N page_load_test/scroll/tiled.html --- /dev/null 1 Jan 1970 00:00:00 -0000 +++ page_load_test/scroll/tiled.html 24 Mar 2010 00:51:21 -0000 @@ -0,0 +1,139 @@ + + + + + ++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. +
+ ++Having had some time at my disposal when in London, I had visited the +British Museum, and made search among the books and maps in the +library regarding Transylvania; it had struck me that some +foreknowledge of the country could hardly fail to have some importance +in dealing with a nobleman of that country. +
+ ++I find that the district he named is in the extreme east of the +country, just on the borders of three states, Transylvania, Moldavia, +and Bukovina, in the midst of the Carpathian mountains; one of the +wildest and least known portions of Europe. +
+ ++I was not able to light on any map or work giving the exact locality +of the Castle Dracula, as there are no maps of this country as yet to +compare with our own Ordance Survey Maps; but I found that Bistritz, +the post town named by Count Dracula, is a fairly well-known place. I +shall enter here some of my notes, as they may refresh my memory when +I talk over my travels with Mina. +
+ ++In the population of Transylvania there are four distinct +nationalities: Saxons in the South, and mixed with them the Wallachs, +who are the descendants of the Dacians; Magyars in the West, and +Szekelys in the East and North. I am going among the latter, who +claim to be descended from Attila and the Huns. This may be so, for +when the Magyars conquered the country in the eleventh century they +found the Huns settled in it. +
+ ++I read that every known superstition in the world is gathered into the +horseshoe of the Carpathians, as if it were the centre of some sort of +imaginative whirlpool; if so my stay may be very interesting. (Mem., +I must ask the Count all about them.) +
+ ++I did not sleep well, though my bed was comfortable enough, for I had +all sorts of queer dreams. There was a dog howling all night under my +window, which may have had something to do with it; or it may have +been the paprika, for I had to drink up all the water in my carafe, +and was still thirsty. Towards morning I slept and was wakened by the +continuous knocking at my door, so I guess I must have been sleeping +soundly then. +
+ ++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. +
+ ++It seems to me that the further east you go the more unpunctual are +the trains. What ought they to be in China? +
+ ++All day long we seemed to dawdle through a country which was full of +beauty of every kind. Sometimes we saw little towns or castles on the +top of steep hills such as we see in old missals; sometimes we ran by +rivers and streams which seemed from the wide stony margin on each +side of them to be subject to great floods. It takes a lot of water, +and running strong, to sweep the outside edge of a river clear. +
+ ++At every station there were groups of people, sometimes crowds, and in +all sorts of attire. Some of them were just like the peasants at home +or those I saw coming through France and Germany, with short jackets, +and round hats, and home-made trousers; but others were very +picturesque. +
+ ++The women looked pretty, except when you got near them, but they were +very clumsy about the waist. They had all full white sleeves of some +kind or other, and most of them had big belts with a lot of strips of +something fluttering from them like the dresses in a ballet, but of +course there were petticoats under them. +
+ +