Cattle-raising becomes one of the most prosperous…
1540 CE to 1683 CE
Although the activity calls for daring horsemanship, it requires no sustained effort, for Cuba's abundant pasture lands facilitate breeding.
The cattle are let loose on Cuba's savannas, where they multipliy rapidly.
They are used as a means of transportation as well as for feeding purposes.
Salted meat becomes an important item sold to the Spanish ships that call at Cuba's ports.
Perhaps the chief value of cattle lies in the hides.
In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, as demand for leather grows in Europe, cattle hides will become Cuba's chief export, yielding considerable profit.
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