[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Foreign](https://indike.org/pramana/inf) › [Islamic world](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl) › [Arabic](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar) › [Encyclopaedias](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.mawsua) › [مسالك الأبصار في ممالك الأمصار](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.mawsua.masalik-al-absar) › [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.mawsua.masalik-al-absar~en-mt) › 2.29 # مسالك الابصار في ممالك الامصار 2.29 English (machine translation) 2.29 - **Language:** English ### [2.29](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.mawsua.masalik-al-absar~en-mt.2.29) sugar cane, it is plentiful and common throughout all these lands. One kind is black, dry and hard of stalk; it is the best for sucking, not for pressing, and is found nowhere else. From its other kinds a great deal of sugar is made, cheap, both rock sugar and ordinary sugar, but it does not solidify; rather it is like white semolina. There is rice there — as Shaykh Mubārak b. Majd Shādhān told me — of twenty-one kinds. They have turnips, carrots, gourds, aubergines, asparagus and ginger, which they cook when it is green, as carrots are cooked, and it has a fine taste that nothing equals. There are chard, onions, garlic, fennel and thyme, and kinds of fragrant plants: roses, water-lilies, violets, the bān, which is the willow, the narcissus, which is the ʿabhar, and henna blossom, which is the fāghiya. Likewise sesame oil, from which comes their lamp fuel; olive oil reaches them only as an import. Honey is more than plentiful, but wax is found only in the Sultan's palaces and no one is allowed it. - [Previous: 2.28](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.mawsua.masalik-al-absar~en-mt.2.28) - [Next: 2.30](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.mawsua.masalik-al-absar~en-mt.2.30) - [Up: 2](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.mawsua.masalik-al-absar~en-mt.2) ## Translations (1) - [Masáliku-l Absár (extracts)](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.mawsua.masalik-al-absar~en-elliot.1.2) — Henry Miers Elliot & John Dowson 1871, English ## Linked texts (1) - [مسالك الأبصار في ممالك الأمصار](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.mawsua.masalik-al-absar.2.29) — Ibn Faḍl Allāh al-ʿUmarī, Arabic --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.mawsua.masalik-al-absar~en-mt.2.29](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.isl.ar.mawsua.masalik-al-absar~en-mt.2.29) · Pramāṇa