nine o'clock, Sunday morning
The stretch of water between the head of the Box Cañon and the foot of the White Horse Rapids was unnavigable for steamboats and passengers were transshipped at that point , walking around the rapids from one steamboat to the other . There were no telephones in the country , hence no way of informing the waiting _ Flora _ that the _ Willis _ was four days late , but coming . When the _ W.H. Willis _ pulled into White Horse , it was learned that the _ Flora _ had waited three days over the limit , and had departed only a few hours before . Also , it was learned that she would tie up at Tagish Post till nine o'clock , Sunday morning . It was then four o'clock Saturday afternoon . The pilgrims called a meeting . On board was a large Peterborough canoe , consigned to the police post at the head of Lake Bennett .