A Camera Actress in the Wilds of Togoland The adventures, observations & experiences of a cinematograph actress in West African forests whilst collecting films depicting native life and when posing as the white woman in Anglo-African cinematograph dramas

CHAPTER XII

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AMONG THE SUMBU SAVAGES

At Sumbu--Wild savages--Our boys afraid--Tschokossi refuse to sell us provisions--I enter a village and buy a chicken--Astonishment of the people at their first sight of coined money--I make friends with the children--Lumps of sugar--A new delicacy--The "white honey rock"--I become "chummy" with the chief--He invites me to go over his village with him--I accept the invitation--A unique village--Elaborate precautions against attack--Where did the Tschokossi learn to build these remarkable villages?-- "Every village a fortress and every house a fort"--Messa gets scared--And Alfred follows suit--Cleanliness and the "classes"--I try my hand at cheese-making--Our too energetic "washerwoman"--A novel theory of wages--The ugliest chief in Togo--Marriage among the wild Tschokossi --Men's view--A primitive form of eugenics--"Can white women laugh?"--Our boys are boycotted--Native women refuse to cook for them--Salt the only currency--Sleeping "rough"--My boys' anxiety for the safety of their "little white mother"--Messa makes himself putties--His anxiety about his wife--A case of filaria--Dangerous symptoms 159-182