Colonial Rest House in Cha-1/3 Chambelain, where my camp outfit was stored. Spence was on hand promptly, but it was nearly eight o'clock before we could get our impedimenta loaded into the small row boat that was to convey us to the mouth of Treske Valley, an old course of the Dralliton River, whence the Trail starts up the leeward side of the Soufriere. Here we were met by those four porters who had walked over from Chambelain. there began at once and the interesting and amusing process of distributing the pack- ages so that no man should have more than 75 pounds of weight to carry up the mountain. Soon after nine o'clock the