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  recommended ­
  to  enter  these  countries  from  the  east,
taking  the  railway  across  to  the  west  coast,  and
a  local  coasting  steamer  thence  to  their  destination. ­
  The  Kosmos  Line  maintains  an  irregular ­
  service  from  San  Francisco.  Salvador ­
  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  coming ­
  from  the  eastern  part  of  the  United  States,
after  crossing  Mexico,  are  reshipped  for  Central ­
  American  west  coast  ports.