Identifier: standardguidetoc00reyn (find matches)
Title: Standard guide to Cuba : a new and complete guide to the island of Cuba, with maps, illustrations, routes of travel, history, and an English-Spanish phrase book
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Reynolds, Charles B. (Charles Bingham), 1856-1940
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Publisher: Havana : New York : Foster & Reynolds
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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tranger must direct his course by pureorientation. An accepted explanation of the crooked streets is that the newcomersstaked their claims and built their houses at random, wherever they hadhappened to deposit their belongings; and that the streets were the out-growth of paths leading from house to house. But an ancient citizen ofNuevitas declares that his father told him that his father had told himthat his father said—and so on back to the beginning—that the streets ofCamagiiey were made crooked on purpose to fool the pirates—an explanationso beautiful that it at least ought to be true. One is quite willing to acceptit after a personal experience of the labyrinthian mazes. The city is in the center of a grazing country, and cattle raisinghas always been the principal industry. The vicinity of Puerto Principe,wrote a traveler of the eighteenth century, is nothing more than a vastplain, where half wild cattle are pastured. The proprietors are only CAMAGUEY—PUERTO PRINCIPE. 147
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CAMAGUEY TINAJONES.Photograph by Mr. Henry Burnett. assiduous to put in their chests the money brought by the overseers fromtheir cattle farms, from whence they bring it forth only for the purposesof play or to carry on law suits which have been handed down fromgeneration to generation. Before the breaking out of the last war, thePuerto Principe cattle numbered 800,000. The city was the chief sourceof meat supply for the island. There were sent annually to Havana alonemore than 60,000 head of beef. The meat was commonly jerked—that is,salted and dried in the sun; thus prepared, it is called tassajo. Anattendant industry was the manufacture of bone-black used in sugarrefining. The best bulls for the Havana bull ring came from PuertoPrincipe, and here were produced the finest horses on the island. Thecattle were killed in the wars; but this is still the chief industry fromwhich the town derives its support, and the country all about is still acattle raising district. Among characteri

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