3x8 TRAVELS through 





LETTER XIX. 



To the fame. 



^he Author returns to Mobile. Remarkable Events 

 which happened in the Cat's Ifle. Tragic Death 

 of the Sieur Tiuxoux governor of that ifle, 



S I R, 



??/?(^?^ A M now returned frorn. mj voyage 

 M I O up the river of TomhckhL I have ful- 

 k:)5(^i^ filled this important and troublefome 

 mifTion, to the fatisfadlion of my fuperiors. Li 

 waiting for my recal to Neiv Orleans^ my curio- 

 fity led me to vifit the little illes on the coaft of 

 Louiftana, 



The ifle of Majfacre was the firft where the 

 French made any fcttlements. It got its name 

 becaufe the French^ when they landed there, 

 found a great quantity of human fkeletons 



but 



