326  SELLING  LATIN  AMERICA

weather  in  the  Atlantic,  delays  in  the  Straits,
storms  in  the  southern  Pacific,  and  time  lost
in  discharging  cargo  intended  for  intermediate ­
  ports  made  it  September  ist,  before
the  goods  reached  Mollendo,  in  Peru,  the
port  of  discharge  for  the  interior.  Here,
owing  to  bad  weather,  Mollendo  being  one  of
the  worst  ports  on  the  Pacific,  and  the  further
fact  that  the  roads  and  custom  house  were  both
congested  with  freight,  a  common  occurrence
in  this  part  of  the  world,  another  month  was
consumed  before  the  cases  were  finally  got
ashore  and  passed  by  the  Peruvian  authorities.
A  few  more  days  were  lost  in  loading  them  on
the  narrow  gauge  railroad  that  runs  from
Mollendo  to  Arequipa,  an  inland  city  of  Peru,
and  the  end  of  the  first  railway.  Here  the
goods  were  transshipped  to  the  road  running
to  Puno,  Peru,  on  the  shores  of  Lake  Titicaca,
where  they  were  again  discharged  and  allowed
to  wait  for  many  days  before  their  turn  came  to
be  stowed  on  the  small  steamer  plying  across
this  perpetually  storm-tossed  lake  in  the