four in the afternoon
No such passengers as had been described to him had landed . He had telegraphed to Baton Rouge for the police to search the steamer on her arrival . Nothing more could be done , and we started up the river again . We arrived at the capital of the state at four in the afternoon . We spent the day in viewing the wonders of the mighty river , the waters of which were almost up to the top of the levees . The governor said that the country was inundated for thirty miles , though we could see but little water except what was between the fringe of the trees on the banks of the stream . It takes the waters about a month to travel from the melting snows on the north and north-west to the Gulf .