Salle attempted to found a settlement at the mouth of the Mississippi.  Starting from France, he made a landing in Matagorda Bay, Texas, and near a branch of the Trinity River, in Texas, was assassinated by some of his disaffected followers.  His patent of nobility dates from 1673.

[2] A reference to the loss of the Griffin, which he had built at the mouth of Cayuga Creek, near Buffalo, the first vessel ever built on the Great Lakes, and which was lost on Lake Michigan soon afterward.

    [3] Tony tells us he lost his hand in Sicily, where it was “shot
    off by a grenade.”

END OF VOL.  I