More expensive than Goes cows
The cows of the Goes brothers 



 In 1555 the Spanish expeditionary Juan de Salazar, who had been at the foundation of the Asunción colony on the Paraguay river, landed with a contingent in San Vicente, on the southern coast of Brazil, and with some cattle obtained there advanced towards Asunción. The group was divided into two expeditions, one of them made up of the legendary Brazilian brothers Pedro and Scipión Goes who landed seven cows and one bull (the famous seven cows carried by Troper Gaete who had traveled from Santos to Asuncion). 
 From this progeny the cattle population began in the territories of Santa Fe, Buenos Aires and Banda Oriental. We recall the paragraph of "Argentina", by Rui Díaz de Guzmán in his poem "Argentina" (which has finally given the name to the country), in which he relates the introduction to Paraguay of the so-called "seven cows of Goes” and which has served until today as an irreplaceable introit to the history of cattle in South America. At that time there was a saying: "more expensive than Goes' cows". 
The second introduction to Paraguay was made by Felipe Cáceres and his companions in 1568, from Santa Cruz de la Sierra, whereupon the cattle, introduced to Peru by the Pacific, came to join in the Assumption with the one entered by the Atlantic. (...) Garay has written that when the Cáceres expedition arrived at the Assumption, a cow was worth three hundred pesos there, which shows that the descendants of the "seven cows of Goes" were not yet to be very numerous. There is no record of the number of heads that were brought from Santa Cruz de la Sierra; but it appears to have exceeded several hundred. At the beginning of the 17th century, the Governor of Asunción, Hernando Arias de Saavedra, ordered the “Other Band” to be populated with cattle, from which several dozen cattle were deposited on the island of Vizcaíno, at the mouth of the Río Negro, which soon they would reproduce in hundreds of thousands and that would give rise to an indiscriminate slaughter for the use of the hides and the bait of the animals. What was needed to drive 50 thousand heads (1719) On January 20, 1719, the attorney asked that the slaughter of cows in the Other Band be prohibited, allowing only that of bulls. During the year three licenses are granted, one of 16 thousand, another of 20 thousand on August 11 and one of 20 thousand, on July 7. In view of the shortage of cattle in Buenos Aires, the Buenos Aires attorney proposes a collection of the Other Band of 40 to 50 thousand heads. The Cabildo consults with knowledgeable people and it turns out that 150 practical field laborers, 1600 horses, ten canoes and 30 Santa fe laborers were needed, the only showers for the passage of rivers. The necessary time seven months. Three for collection, one to get over Uruguay, another month to get to Paraná and another to pass it (minutes January 31, 1719) The crossing of the rivers Uruguay and Paraná required a lot of time to swim the cattle in small batches . It is added that the passage through Entre Rios was dangerous for the Charruas Indians. The "Other Band" in 1720 The Jesuits of the missions, who since 1710 had the "rights" for this band. they were the introducers of cattle from the north and `periodically made tropes of cattle reaching as far as the Rio de la Plata. The Jesuits did not request authorization from the Buenos Aires council, because they had "cedulas para lo". Despite these rights, Governor Zabala, on October 15, 1720, compels them to do the dairy with moderation and only what is necessary for food (minutes August 19, 1720) Neighbors of Santa Fe, porteños and Jesuits Accessing a At the request of the residents of Buenos Aires, Governor Bruno Mauricio de Zabala prohibits vacancy in the Other Band (Bando of August 19, 1720) and on October 15 extends it to those of Santa Fe. After comings and goings between the porteños, those of Santa Fe and the Jesuits, at the session of the Buenos Aires council on February 13, 1722, he says: "They will be able to remove 60,000 heads of the campaigns of San Gabriel annually, 30,000 sets in Santa Fe, in addition the city of Buenos Aires will be able to make 50 thousand leathers (minutes November 9, 1729). ” In 1721, in the "Other Band" there were only thirteen stays. In early 1721, the Buenos Aires attorney general called the attention of the Cabildo, saying that in the Other Band, where many "bagamundos pawns who come to their heart" are housed, which can not be detrimental to the cattle that had As a consequence of this the Cabildo of February 3, 1721 resolves that in the rooms of the Other Band that are only thirteen, have no more than three pawns in each and that all who are left to join the Buenos Aires Band. Ten pawns of the San Juan guard are forwarded and it is added that two leagues from Colonia to Montevideo (Today Riachuelo) was found a ranch populated by Portuguese, where they had 3,000 hides. He says that the Portuguese were incapable of vacating because of what they used to the Minuanian Indians and the peons of Santa Fe who had been left in increasing numbers, along with other Christians from other provinces who want to live, without God, without King and without Law, considering For this reason, the Other Band is "a cave of evil." 
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