Note 70 — VOYAGES AND TRAVELS (continued 2)

Dobbs, Account of the Countries adjoining Hudson’s Bay (London, 1744), gives a map of these regions “as described by Joseph La France, a French Canadese Indian, who Traveled thro those Countries and Lakes for 3 years from 1739 to 1742,” on which he places “Ouassi Indians” between the Michipicoten and Nipigon rivers on the north shore of Lake Superior. He also says (p. 32), “There are two Indian Nations upon this North Coast, the Epinette ... and the Ouassi, both tribes of the Sauteurs.” The tribe designated by this term seems to have disappeared in the nineteenth century.—Ed.