Larynx
the windpipe. It is built up of the cricoid cartilage above the the trachea, containing the arytenoid cartilages and vocal ligaments, terminating in the glottis and epiglottis; it is the organ of voice.
LAS CASES After many and Rouen, France, Nov. 22, 1643. Settling in Canada at the age of 23, he began his travels with an attempt to reach China by descending the Ohio river, which he supposed to empty into the Pacific. As soon as he found that the great S. streams drained into the Gulf of Mexico he formed the project of descending the Mississippi to the sea. After many and of descending the Mississippi to the sea . severe hardships this long voyage was concluded, and the arms of France set up at the mouth of the great river on April 9, 1682. Two years later an expedition was fitted out to establish a permanent French settlement on the Gulf, which should secure France's claims to the Mississippi valley. But La Salle's bad fortune pursued him; he mistook Matagorda Bay for a mouth of the Mississippi, landed there, and then spent two years in unsuccessful journeys to discover the great river, while his colonists and soldiers gradually dwindled away.
His harshness of manner, more than his want of success, embittered his followers, his followers , and he was assassinated by some of them March 20, 1687.