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I had for breakfast more paprika , and a sort of porridge of maize flour which they said was `` mamaliga , '' and egg-plant stuffed with forcemeat , a very excellent dish , which they call `` impletata . '' -LRB- _ Mem . _ , get recipe for this also . -RRB- I had to hurry breakfast , for the train started a little before eight , or rather it ought to have done so , for after rushing to the station at 7:30 I had to sit in the carriage for more than an hour before we began to move . It seems to me that the further east you go the more unpunctual are the trains . What ought they to be in China ? All day long we seemed to dawdle through a country which was full of beauty of every kind .