two in the afternoon
`` Then we wo n't talk any more , '' I added , retiring from the pilot-house after the boat had passed over the doubtful shoal , which the rain had rendered harmless . At seven in the evening we reached Enterprise , where we remained overnight . At daylight the next morning , before any of our passengers were stirring , we started down the river again . At two in the afternoon we were alongside the Sylvania . We merely put Washburn , Ben Bowman , Landy Perkins , and Hop Tossford on board of her , to run her down to Jacksonville , and kept on our way . But it was midnight when we made the wharf of the company that owned the Wetumpka . Except those in charge of the steamer , all were asleep .