Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 272, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1917 — Agave Tree of Mexico. [ARTICLE]

Agave Tree of Mexico.

Chinese history records that one Hui Shen, a Buddhist priest, a native at Cabul, in the year 499 returned to King-Chow, capital of the dynasty at Tsl, bringing with him from the country of Fusang,. where he had been acting as a missionary, a number at curious articles as gifts for the emperor. Among these were a material resembling silk, with very strong threads, and a mirror. From the descriptions the former is believed to have been fibrous material from the agave tree of Mexico, called by tho missionary, “fusang,” the name also applied to the country, and the latter is believed to have been not unlike mirrors used in Mexico and othen parts of the American continent.