Downstream

evening. The press noted that
this was ‘an expedition
which, should it prove
successful, will, as a feat of
endurance, be far greater than
his former feat of swimming
across the English Channel’,
during which he’d been in the
water for nearly twenty-two
hours. But Webb’s plan to
swim ‘continuously, without
any rest whatever’, for an
intended thirty-six hours,
wasn’t to be.