Downstream

the two days’ aquatic
amusements were ‘rather
dull’ and ‘No steam-boats
were this year allowed on the
river’. The steam launches
were no laughing matter to
some visitors, among them
the narrator of Three Men in
a Boat: ‘I hate steam-
launches; I suppose every
rowing man does. I never see
a steam-launch but I feel I
should like to lure it to a
lonely part of the river, and