Traversing a region of about three hundred miles on the parallel of fifty-seven degrees of latitude, they reached the head waters of the Volga.

Here they embarked in boats and drifted down the wild stream for a thousand miles to the mouth of the river Kama, where they established a colony.

At this point they were twelve hundred miles north of the point where the Volga empties into the Caspian.

Other adventurers soon followed, and flourishing colonies sprang up all along the banks of the Kama and the Viatha.

This region was the Missouri valley of Russia.