Yakuts said that somewhere in the south was Dauria, where a broad river watered fields of wheat in the summer sun.

ECONOMIST: The Amur River

But an old woman, a shaman, stayed to tell Khabarov of mountains full of gold and gems, and of Dauria's fields of grain enough, he reckoned, to feed 20, 000 and get flour to Yakutsk in two months instead of four years.

ECONOMIST: The Amur River

Flooding into Dauria, they rebuilt Albazino.

ECONOMIST: The Amur River