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 HISTORY OF THE OJIBWAYS,

entrance to Lake Superior is obstructed by a succession of rapids, first called by traders Sault, or in modern French, Saut du Gaston, in compliment to Jean Baptiste Gaston, the younger brother of Louis the Thirteenth, but in 1669, named by Jesuit missionaries, Sault de Sainte Marie. Here, the French traders arrived in the days of Champlain, and found a band of Indians, who largely subsisted upon the white fish of the region, and were known among the Iroquois, as Estiaghicks or Ostiagahoroones. By the Hurons they were called Pauotigoueieuhak, dwellers at the falls, or Pahouitingouachirini, men of the shallow cataract. In the Jesuit relations of 1647–8 mention is made of (397)