Dracula, The Hunters' Journals: 1 August Log of the Demeter (Cont.)

The Demeter hits a patch of fog.

1 August.—Two days of fog, and not a sail sighted. Had hoped when in the English Channel to be able to signal for help or get in somewhere. Not having power to work sails, have to run before wind. Dare not lower, as could not raise them again. We seem to be drifting to some terrible doom. Mate now more demoralised than either of men. His stronger nature seems to have worked inwardly against himself. Men are beyond fear, working stolidly and patiently, with minds made up to worst. They are Russian, he Roumanian.

Notes

Moon Phase: Waxing Gibbous

Here we see Dracula's ability to control the weather some more, a power often forgotten in some modern retellings of the Dracula story and almost completely ignored in other vampire tales.

We are now down to a crew of four.