He found that if he was tired enough at night, he went to sleep simply because he was too exhausted to stay awake.

Dawn would come soon and the night was at its coldest.

And he was fleeing, running -- fleeing his death and his life at the same time.

Then he was on his way at a gallop.

He scuttled in shadow along the east wall of the stockade and then followed the south wall until he was at the rear of the two frame buildings.

A man was standing in the open door of the lighted orderly room a few yards to Mike's left, but he, too, suddenly made up his mind and went racing to join the confused activity at the east end of the stockade.

Next to him was a young boy I was sure had sat near me at one of the trading sessions.

She had picked up the quirt and was twirling it around her wrist and smiling at him.

I was nearly thirty at the time.

only the counter at one end was lighted by a long fluorescent tube suspended directly above it.

I was at once disappointed, although just what I had expected him to look like I could not have explained.

This desire, I went on, growing voluble as my conviction was aroused, had mounted at such a rate recently that I now found its realization necessary not only to my physical but also to my spiritual wellbeing.

Facing the forest now, she who had not dared to enter it before, walked between two trees at random and headed in what she believed was the direction of the pool.

She regarded them as signs that she was nearing the glen she sought, and she was glad to at last be doing something positive in her unenunciated, undefined struggle with the mountain and its darkling inhabitants.

laughing at a dying man, laughing as a man was beaten to death.

He'd started a fire and put coffee on, and now was busy at the work board of his chuck wagon.

Hank had gathered wood for a cookfire, and his wife was busy at it now.

Tom Horn was soon back at work, giving his secret employers their money's worth.

Haying time was close at hand, and they needed some strong branches to repair a hay rack.

`` It was Brenner's idea '', Jess mumbled, dabbing at his nose.

Seeing them waiting there at the foot of Emigrant Rock was so overwhelming that, for a good minute after they rounded the bend and started down the grade leading toward them, Matilda could not speak at all.

But in 1858, a weakening Qing Empire was forced to cede Manchuria north of the Amur to Russia under the Treaty of Aigun.

In 1858, the area was ceded to Russia under the Treaty of Aigun.

The accomplished fact was recognized by China in 1858 by the Treaty of Aigun, recognized the Amur River as the boundary between Russia and Qing Empire, and granted Russia free access to the Pacific Ocean.

The area was conquered by the Manchus in 1639-1640, after defeating the Evenk Federation led by Bombogor, it was returned to the Qing Dynasty in the Treaty of Nerchinsk and annexed by Russia in 1858 by the Treaty of Aigun between Russia and Qing Dynasty.

On 28 May 1858, the separate Treaty of Aigun was signed with Russia to revise the Chinese and Russian border as determined by the Nerchinsk Treaty in 1689.

Among the few regions where such comparatively traditional communities could be found, and the Manchu language was still widely spoken, were the Aigun District ( whose folkways the Russian ethnographer S. M. Shirokogoroff studied in 1915-1916 ) and the Tsitsihar District of Heilongjiang Province.

The original seat of the Military Governor of Heilongjiang, as established in 1683, was in Heilongjang City ( also known as Aigun or Heihe, or, in Manchu, Saghalien Ula ), located on the Amur River.

During the Second Opium War, he was one of the chief architects of Qing foreign policy and he repudiated many of the treaties that were concluded in the late 1850s, in particular the territorial concessions in the Sino-Russian Treaty of Aigun.

Despite not asking the return of territory, the Chinese did ask the USSR to formally ( publicly ) acknowledge that said border, established with the Treaty of Aigun ( 1858 ) and the Convention of Peking ( 1860 ), was a historic Russian injustice against China ; the Soviet government ignored the matter.

In the Stalinist tradition, the pre – 1860 Chinese presence in lands Tsarist Russia acquired with, the Treaty of Aigun and the Convention of Peking, became a politically incorrect subject in the Soviet press, “ inconvenient ” museum exhibits were removed from public view, and the Jurchen-script text about the Jin Dynasty stele, supported by a stone tortoise in the Khabarovsk Museum, was covered with cement.

In 1858, a weakening Qing Empire was forced to cede Manchuria north of the Amur to Russia under the Treaty of Aigun ; however, Qing subjects were allowed to continue to reside, under the Qing authority, in a small region on the now-Russian side of the river, known as the Sixty-Four Villages East of the Heilongjiang River.

Meanwhile, some Chinese have criticised the treaty as an official acknowledgement of the legitimacy of Russian rule over Outer Manchuria, which was ceded by the Qing Dynasty to Imperial Russia under a series of Unequal Treaties, which included the Treaty of Aigun in 1858 and the Convention of Peking in 1860, in order to exchange exclusive usage of Russia's rich oil resources.

The Treaty of Aigun () was a 1858 treaty between the Russian Empire, and the empire of the Qing Dynasty, the sinicized-Manchu rulers of China, that established much of the modern border between the Russian Far East and Manchuria ( the original homeland of the Manchu people and the Qing Dynasty ), which is now known as Northeast China.

Aigun (; Manchu: Aihūn hoton ) was a historic town of China in northern Manchuria, situated on the right bank of the Amur River, some 30 km south ( downstream ) from the central urban area of Heihe ( which, in its turn, is across the Amur from the mouth of the Zeya River and Blagoveschensk ).

The predecessor of Aigun was a town of the indigenous Ducher people of the Amur Valley, located on the left ( northeastern-now Russian ) bank of the Amur.

For a few years early on ( since 1683 ) Aigun served as the capital ( the seat of the Military Governor ) of Heilongjiang Province, until the capital was moved to Nenjiang ( Mergen ) in 1690, and later to Qiqihar.

As a part of a nationwide Sino-French cartographic program, Aigun ( or, rather, Saghalien Ula hoton ) was visited ca.

During the Boxer Rebellion of 1900 Aigun was, for a few weeks, the center of military action directed against the Russians.

On July 22, Aigun was captured by Russian troops.

In 1913 Aigun became the county seat of the newly-created Aigun County ( 瑷珲县, Aihun xian ), which was in December 1956 renamed Aihui County ( 爱辉县 ).