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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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heir 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 characteristic features of Camagiiey houses are the tinajones orearthen jars for rain water. These are sometimes of immense size, stand-
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CAMAGUEY—PUERTO PRINCIPE. M9 ing six feet in height, with a diameter of six feet, and a capacity of 500gallons. They have come down from the old days. All are dated, and thedates show that some of them are more than 100 years old; none are 01more recent production than i860, in which year masons came from Spainwho knew how to build cisterns. Despite the modern cistern, however,the Camagiieyan still clings to the tinajon as a cherished domestic institu-tion; and to this day, when a house is to be built, the first step is toprocure one of these venerable rainwater vessels, set it in place, and buildthe house wnth reference to it. The tinajones were turned on a potterswheel over a core. Among the Spaniards the term tinajon is applied to astout person with a large capacity for liquid refreshments. Camaguey hasalso a supply of well water; five artesian wells were drilled by the UnitedStates Government of intervention, two of them being 486 feet deep. From whatever direction Camagiiey is

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