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 II

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HOW WE FILMED "THE WHITE GODDESS OF THE WANGORA"

A tiresome railway journey--My hut in the forest--A trying toilet--Native inquisitiveness--_Haute cuisine_ in the heart of Africa--Mosquitoes--My first night in the bush --A very primitive shower-bath--Rehearsing our first cinema drama--Savages as "supers"--Irritating delays-- A false alarm--Filming the principal scene in the _White Goddess_--I am knocked up--And laid up--Malarial fever --"If you cough you'll die"--Convalescence--I try cookery--A disconcerting experience--Eating 9863 chickens --A little about lizards--Also about ants and beetles 29-39