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the shipping agent to learn particulars of the arrival of the
Czarina Catherine.
Later.—Lord Godalming has returned. The Consul is
away, and the Vice Consul sick. So the routine work has

been attended to by a clerk. He was very obliging, and
offered to do anything in his power.
JONATHAN HARKER’S JOURNAL
30 October.—At nine o’clock Dr. Van Helsing, Dr.
Seward, and I called on Messrs. Mackenzie & Steinkoff,
the agents of the London firm of Hapgood. They had
received a wire from London, in answer to Lord
Godalming’s telegraphed request, asking them to show us
any civility in their power. They were more than kind and
courteous, and took us at once on board the Czarina
Catherine, which lay at anchor out in the river harbor.
There we saw the Captain, Donelson by name, who told
us of his voyage. He said that in all his life he had never
had so favourable a run.
‘Man!’ he said, ‘but it made us afeard, for we expect it
that we should have to pay for it wi’ some rare piece o’ ill
luck, so as to keep up the average. It’s no canny to run
frae London to the Black Sea wi’ a wind ahint ye, as
though the Deil himself were blawin’ on yer sail for his
ain purpose. An’ a’ the time we could no speer a thing.

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