Dance of the Dwarfs
“Owen Dawnay was attributed to partisans of the Colombian National Liberation Army. The evidence of his only neighbors, a few families of squatters and masterless cattlemen, appeared conclusive. They had been terrorized into supplying cattle to guerrilla headquarters in the foothills of the Cordillera. Two of them had been brutally murdered. The headman of their village had disappeared. Dawnay himself was known to have been threatened.
That a guerrilla detachment did indeed visit Dawnay’s experimental station about the time of his death is certain. His arms, his official journal and all his papers were stolen. The main gate had been forced, and the tracks of a jeep were plainly to be seen in the compound. The Colombian government and the Ministry of Overseas Development had every reason to suppose that he had been executed for refusing to collaborate with the revolutionaries.
Dawnay’s choice of an agricultural station in that remote corner where the great grasslands, or llanos,... at last disappear under tropical forest, largely untraveled, was scientifically sound, but may have owed still more to his personal tastes.MoreLess
That a guerrilla detachment did indeed visit Dawnay’s experimental station about the time of his death is certain. His arms, his official journal and all his papers were stolen. The main gate had been forced, and the tracks of a jeep were plainly to be seen in the compound. The Colombian government and the Ministry of Overseas Development had every reason to suppose that he had been executed for refusing to collaborate with the revolutionaries.
Dawnay’s choice of an agricultural station in that remote corner where the great grasslands, or llanos,... at last disappear under tropical forest, largely untraveled, was scientifically sound, but may have owed still more to his personal tastes.MoreLess
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