A photograph of sugar cane alongside a bank in Congo. The sugar cane is not extensively grown here and there is a fence around the sugar cane to protect it from the goats.
Sugar cane - bananas and a huge red petioled palm - with leaf like a huge oil palm. These bottom lands are very fertile - but the rest is difficult because although the rain is sufficient to support a rather heavy vegetation the drought period is so…
Sugar cane, corn, eggplant, pepper, beans, sweet potatoes, oranges, eggs, cakes and snuff. This market is not especially well attended. But it serves as a medium of exchange for the natives. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 17, 1920]