Note 2 — Chapter XXXIX · THE HISTORY OF THE AMUR.

This report, so far as the Shilka is concerned, was confirmed in the same year by what a party of Cossacks heard, who had been sent from Yeneseisk to the Vitim, about a prince of the Daurians named Lavkai, who inhabited a stronghold at the mouth of the Urka rivulet, and whose people kept cattle and tilled the soil.