669, and the upper waters of the Illinois in 1671. In 1679 he
established a fort on the Illinois River, near the present Peoria,
intending it as a starting-point for an expedition down the
Mississippi. The expedition here described, organized in 1681,
comprized, beside La Salle and Tonti, thirty Frenchmen and a band
of Indians. It reached the Mississippi by way of the Chicago
portage and the Illinois River, and arrived at the mouth in 1682.
In 1684 La 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."

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