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...until the British last week proclaimed "Governor's Rule," and flew in substantial troop reinforcements, did the carnage begin to abate in the Punjab. By then, uncountable hundreds were dead, hundreds more were injured, and thousands of buildings had been smashed or burned. The riots came in a moment of governmental vacuum, after the resignation of Malik Khizar Hayat Khan Tiwana's coalition government. The issue was purely and simply Pakistan. The Moslems shouted "Pakistan Zindabad!" (Up with Pakistan!). The Hindus and Sikhs answered back: "Pakistan Murdabad!" (Death to Pakistan!). Then the knives began to flash...
Daveron, who knew the jungles, stepped in. First, he set up a mule hospital, treated maggot-infested wounds (from sharp jungle grass) with crude-oil rubs. With local gauchos he rounded up the strays and drove the troop to better pasture...
There was nothing easy about his route. He and his drivers fought off both Indians and rustlers. Sometimes floods held up the mule drove for months. Sometimes mules went lame crossing the rocky outcroppings in northeastern Bolivia. When that happened, the troop would halt while the animals were roped, thrown, and treated to hoof repairs. In the autumn of 1946, they were still in Trinidad, Bolivia, 400 miles from their goal...
...getting the mules through had become an obsession with Daveron. Despite swollen rivers and poor grazing (the bush seemed to grow only spiked trees, barbedwire plant and fishhook vines), Daveron pushed on. Sometimes wild pigs stampeded the troop and then jaguars clawed the strays. Last month, tired, tattered, and torn, Daveron and his mules made the Amazon. Of the original 171, only one mule had been lost-by snakebite. Some of the 170 that pulled through Daveron sold to the territorial government; others (at $250 a head) went to rubber producers...
State police from the Hanover troop of Sergeant Stewart Currier carefully eyed competitors and spectators alike at the Dartmouth winter carnival this weekend, hoping without success to single out the tall form of Sylvester Gardiner '46 enjoying his favorite sport of skiing...