Dracula, The Hunters' Journals: 2 August Log of the Demeter (Cont.)

The fog continues

2 August, midnight.—Woke up from few minutes’ sleep by hearing a cry, seemingly outside my port. Could see nothing in fog. Rushed on deck, and ran against mate. Tells me heard cry and ran, but no sign of man on watch. One more gone. Lord, help us! Mate says we must be past Straits of Dover, as in a moment of fog lifting he saw North Foreland, just as he heard the man cry out. If so we are now off in the North Sea, and only God can guide us in the fog, which seems to move with us; and God seems to have deserted us.

Notes

Moon Phase: Waxing Gibbous

The fog is indeed moving with them. I wonder if Stoker was influenced by the tales of King James VI and I and his recounting of the weather that "witches" used against him to prevent his return to England. The same sort of weather is now used to cover Dracula's arrival to England. In each case it is an example of those of evil influence using weather control, or Tempestarii.