CENTRAL AMERICA 
miserable, passenger and freight rates being 
excessive. The passenger ships from San 
Francisco are old, poorly equipped, slow and 
the food inferior. Travelers are recom 
mended to enter these countries from the east, 
taking the railway across to the west coast, and 
a local coasting steamer thence to their desti 
nation. The Kosmos Line maintains an ir 
regular service from San Francisco. Salva 
dor has a national line of steamships, making 
calls at ports in Nicaragua, Honduras, and 
Guatemala and going as far north as Salinas 
Cruz in Mexico, the western terminus of the 
Tehuantepec Railway, from which goods com 
ing from the eastern part of the United States, 
after crossing Mexico, are reshipped for Cen 
tral American west coast ports.