# Household words, no. 307, February 9, 1856

Author: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 [Editor]

Genre: Category: British Literature

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76386

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Household+words%2C+no.+307%2C+February+9%2C+1856+Dickens&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

It was November, and the morrow of our arrival at Sulina dawned a dreary, sunless day, rather cold. We spent it waiting for the boat, which was due from Constantinople. Our pilot, however, surmised that there had been bad weather for many days in the Black Sea, and that no captain in the service of the Austrian Lloyd’s would have ventured to pass the Bosphorus while it lasted. The pilot was a dark, sharp-featured, timorous Greek, of about forty years of age. His name was Birbantaki, a name of high account in every port of the Euxine.

## Chapters

- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/household-words-no-307-february-9-1856-76386/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/household-words-no-307-february-9-1856-76386/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/household-words-no-307-february-9-1856-76386/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Part 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/household-words-no-307-february-9-1856-76386/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Part 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/household-words-no-307-february-9-1856-76386/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Part 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/household-words-no-307-february-9-1856-76386/chapters/6/index.md)