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 interme 
diate 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