The reason why I have both cedar and emeralds is that I founded a second city. If you click on one of the neighboring plots with an icon of a resource you should be able to see how much it will cost to take it over. You need to have three boats, about 1400 bricks, 30-ish of several other luxury goods, and a couple of scarabs. It took me a few days to save up enough bricks to do this. I had to leave Abdju alone for awhile and restrain my click-happy finger that kept wanting to use my bricks to make things shinier in my original city instead of saving

Makes mental note.
Now that I think about it, how the heck do I find you guys anyway?
If you don't know this already, look in the upper-left hand corner of your nome map. There are arrow buttons. Clicking the down arrow will take you to the Bast nome south of you. It has things that will make you happy.
Yay! A whole bunch of pretty, pretty emeralds. I'm going to need to save up on the supplies then
