The sugar-cane: a poem in four books with notes / [James Grainger].

  • James Grainger
Date:
1766
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Credit: The sugar-cane: a poem in four books with notes / [James Grainger]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    go THE SUGAR-CANE. Bookk Thrice-wholefome tanies: while a neighbouring dell, ; (Which nature to the fourfop had refign’d,) - Gave wealth; and gold bought better land and flaves. : 600 it Manihot, Magnoc, and Manioc, and the Spaniards Mandiocha, {t is pretended that all creatures but man eat the raw root of the caffada with impunity ; and, when dried, that it is a fovereign antidote againft venomous bites. A wholefome drink is prepared from this root by the Indians, Spaniards, and Portuguefe, ac- indians only ufe, and is by them called Baceacoua, Ver. $97. tanies:] This wholefome roct, in fome of the iflands, is called Edda: its botanical name is “ Arum maxi- * mum Egyptiaeum.” There are three fpecies of tanies, the blue, the feratching, and that which is commonly roafted. The bloffoms of all three are very fragrant, in a morning or evening. The young leaves, as well as the fpiral ftalks which fupport the flower, are. eaten by Negroes as a fallad. The root makes a good broth in dyfenteric complaints. They are feldom fo large 2s the yam, but moft people think them preferable in point, of tafte. “ & ‘Ver. 98. to the fourfop] The true Indian name of this tree is Suirfaak. it grows in the barreneft places to a confide- geble height. Its fruit will often weigh two pounds. Its fkin is green, and {omewhat prickly. The pulp is not difagreeable to fome degree of an acid. It is one of the Anonas, as’are alfo the cuftard, ftar, and fugar-apples. ‘The leaves of the fourfop are very fhining and green, “The fruit is wholefome; but feldom ‘admitted to the tables of the elegant. The feeds are difperfed reduced to a powder, and fhuffed up the nofe, produces the fome is a fpecific in the epileply.
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