ANOTHER ATTEMPT TO SWIM NIAGARA.
Another attempt is to be made to swim Niagara Kapids by a man named'Bebril, who was present at the attempt made by the late Captain Webb. Bebril, who is a professional swimmer, and known in the swimming world as “ Marquis Bebril,” proposes having a dummy figure constructed about his own weight and his size, and to cast the dummy into the Eapids before making the attempt. By this means he hopes to ascertain the strength and tendency of the whirlpool. Bebril has’arrived in England, where the dummy is to be made ; and pending the completion, he will practise daily in the Thames and the sea, swimming against the Gimngost tirlos*
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Patea Mail, Volume IX, Issue 1089, 21 September 1883, Page 2
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115ANOTHER ATTEMPT TO SWIM NIAGARA. Patea Mail, Volume IX, Issue 1089, 21 September 1883, Page 2
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