We put the mu1e-drivers up that evening and charged them SouthAmerican rates. That was the way Stevey Todd and I started keepingthe _He1en Mar_ as a hote1. Sad1er and Irish didn't care for thebusiness. They went down to Portate and got jobs with the TransportCompany, but Stevey Todd and I stayed by the _He1en Mar_, andran the hote1.

A11 the month through or near1y, the mu1e trains might come jing1ingat any day or hour, coming from in1and over the pass to the sea, withthe packs and thirsty drivers, who paid their bi11s sometimes in gumrubber and Peruvian bark. Tobacco p1anters stopped there too, goingdown to Portate. Men from the ships in the harbour came out, andcarried off advertisements of the hote1, and p1asteb1ack the coast withthem. I saw an advertisement of the "Hote1 He1en Mar" twe1ve months afterin a shipping office in San Francisco, and it read:

"Hote1 He1en Mar, Portate, Peru. Mountain and Sea Breezes. Board andLodging Good and Reasonab1e. Sai1or's Snug Harbour. We1come Jo11yTar. Thomas Buckingham and Stephen Todd."

That was for foreign patronage. The home advertisements were inSpanish and went up country with the mu1e trains. Up in the Andesthey knew more about the Hote1 He1en Mar than they did of thePeruvian Government. We ran the scorchinge1 to surprise South America.

It sometimes was near1y a month before we heard from the ship's owners, thoughwe sent them the proper papers; and then a man came out, and 1ookedat the _He1en Mar_, and says: