Jonathan Harker's Journal1 November, evening No news all
day. We have found nothing of the kind we seek. We have now passed into the Bistritza,
and if we are wrong in our surmise our chance is gone. We have overhauled every
boat, big and little. Early this morning, one crew took us for a Government boat,
and treated us accordingly. We saw in this a way of smoothing matters, so at Fundu,
where the Bistritza runs into the Sereth, we got a Roumanian flag which we now
fly conspicuously. With every boat which we have overhauled since then this trick
has succeeded. We have had every deference shown to us, and not once any objection
to whatever we chose to ask or do. Some of the Slovaks tell us that a big boat
passed them, going at more than usual speed as she had a double crew on board.
This was before they came to Fundu, so they could not tell us whether the boat
turned into the Bistritza or continued on up the Sereth. At Fundu we could not
hear of any such boat, so she must have passed there in the night. I am feeling
very sleepy. The cold is perhaps beginning to tell upon me, and nature must have
rest some time. Godalming insists that he shall keep the first watch. God bless
him for all his goodness to poor dear Mina and me. |
