Before You Read: Target Vocabulary
Essential words to understand this chapter easily.
dense
/dens/thick and difficult to see through or move through
overland
/ˈəʊvəlænd/across land rather than by sea or by air
ignorant
/ˈɪɡnərənt/not knowing or having information about something
solemn
/ˈsɒləm/very serious, formal, and sincere
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After a careful search through London shipping records, Professor Van Helsing, Lord Godalming, Dr. Seward, and Quincey Morris discovered how Count Dracula had made his escape. Knowing that his safe hiding places in London were ruined, the Count had quickly transferred his final box of earth onto a sailing vessel called the Czarina Catherine, bound for the port of Varna in the Black Sea. At Doolittle's Wharf, the dockworkers described a tall, pale stranger with burning eyes who had arrived the previous afternoon in great haste. The man wore all black with an odd straw hat and scattered his money...
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