Downstream

hours twenty minutes, beating
a time set by Jabez Wolffe
byten minutes. The course
had only ever been completed
by three men, including
Captain Webb. The Dover
Express devoted some space
to her successes so far,
describing her as 5 foot 7 and
weighing 12 stone. Another
paper insisted that her
training performances were
‘accompanied by weird Maori
yells, which greatly