The Slowvax and the Susgani

This episode contains racist stereotypes. Jonathan Harker's journal, kept in shorthand, the 17th of June. This morning I heard without a cracking of whips, and pounding and scraping of horses' feet up the rocky path beyond the courtyard. The lighter vagons contained great square boxes with handles of thick rope. These were evidently empty by the ease with which the slowvax handled them. When they were all unloaded and packed in a great heap in one corner of the yard, theSlowvax were given some money by the Susgani and spitting on it for luck. Lazy went each to his horse's head. And, thought me afterwards, I heard the cracking of