[ [120] Lettre de La Salle à un de ses associés (Margry, ii. 32).
[ [121] Description de la Louisiane (1683), 41. It is characteristic of Hennepin that, in the editions of his book published after La Salle's death, he substitutes, for "anybody but him," "anybody but those who had formed so generous a design,"—meaning to include himself, though he lost nothing by the disaster, and had not formed the design.
On these incidents, compare the two narratives of Tonty, of 1684 and 1693. The book bearing Tonty's name is a compilation full of errors. He disowned its authorship.
[ [122] Lettre de La Salle, 22 Août, 1682 (Margry, ii. 212).
[ [123] Lettre de La Motte, sans date.
CHAPTER X.
1679.
THE LAUNCH OF THE "GRIFFIN."