PACKING AND SHIPPING 325 
ployes of the consular office, or even the consul 
himself. Besides if you follow your shipping 
instructions there can be no cause of com 
plaint, on the part of the buyer, should un 
favorable conditions arise. 
It might be well in order to impress upon 
the reader’s mind some of the great difficul 
ties to be overcome and the many handlings 
that are received by goods in transit to follow 
in detail a shipment actually made from New 
York City to La Paz, Bolivia, the route being 
the usual one taken by merchandise intended 
for that place. The order was placed in 
February, 1913, early in the month and the 
goods arrived December 22nd, 1913, being 
more than ten months on the way. When the 
American salesman received the order at La 
Paz, it was immediately forwarded by the 
next mail to New York City, where it arrived 
in about five weeks. The shipment of 854 
cases was made from the factory in the middle 
West about the 15th of April, 1913, and the 
vessel containing them sailed from New York 
harbor, May 1st, 1913. Exceptionally bad