This lieutenant told us that some negro soldiers were stationed at Trinidad and were being kept supplied by an army pack train.

I asked him how they were getting on.

He said very well, except that they could not keep warm.

They had called for all the spare blankets available, but still complained of the cold! The trail proved to be in execrable condition.

No repair work had been done on it since 1896, and its constant use during the then-existing rainy season by a pack train had completed its destruction.