Read the excerpt from Into the Unknown by Stewart Ross, and then look at the illustration below. Kingsley was now entering what she called the "raw Africa” that she liked best. As no passenger boats ventured farther up the Ogooué, she taught herself to handle a dugout canoe—an extremely difficult skill—and paddled her way farther and farther inland. Trading as she went, she was always a cause of astonishment in villages where no European woman had been seen before.

Mary Kingsley and others on a ship in a river.

Which statement best describes how the illustration helps the reader understand the passage?

The illustration shows what a canoe in rural parts of Africa actually looked like.
The illustration shows what Mary Kingsley actually looked like.
The illustration shows what the landscape of Africa actually looked like.
The illustration shows what the items Mary Kingsley used for trading actually looked like.