Downstream

ever accomplished in fresh
water’, and ‘took no alcoholic
stimulants during his swim,
his only refreshment being a
little beef and some coffee’.
The press devoted just a
paragraph to this swim, and
there was no mention of any
crowds. Perhaps, considering
he’d done the Channel three
years earlier, it wasn’t seen as
a major feat. In comparison,
at the time of his Channel
crossing, the Mayor of