More than likely the bear had been attracted by the molasses in the grain.
Sugar and molasses have from time to time been manufactured from the corn stalks.
Sugar is still grown, and rum and molasses are made, but the consumption of these is confined to the island.
Manufacturing industries are for the most part closely related to the products of the soil, about two-thirds of the value of all manufactures in Igoo and in 1905 being represented by sugar and molasses refining, lumber and timber products, cotton-seed oil and cake, and rice cleaned and polished.
Throughout more than half of the same century also Gloucester carried on a varied and valuable trade with Surinam, hake being the chief article of export and molasses and sugar the principal imports.