Show THE CANE we have borrowed it from inu it the sugar cane ana its uses have been known in india its native home immemorial it la perhaps the earliest source which sugar was produced and all other modes of manufacture have been borrowed from or based on it the early classical writers knew sugar vaguely as honey of canes to the greco poman w arid the sugar cane was the reed which the swarthy to chew and from which they extracted a ous sweetmeat it was the arabs those great car biers between the east and west who introduced the cane in the middle ages into egypt and the south of spain where it flourished abundantly until west indian slavery drove it out of the field tor a time and sent the trade in sugar to jamaica and cuba early in the sixteenth century the cane was taken from sadly to madeira and the canaries thence it found its way to brazil find mexico to jamaica and haiti cane sugar was well known in italy about tn second cen tury and has been common in england tance the tudor period the strenuous days of great elizabeth had sugar tor their sack and ginger waa hot 1 the mouth too asare all magazine |