Meg Gehrts

INTRODUCTION

FOREWORD

CONTENTS

ILLUSTRATIONS

A CAMERA ACTRESS IN THE WILDS OF TOGOLAND

CHAPTER I LONDON TO LOME

CHAPTER II HOW WE FILMED "THE WHITE GODDESS OF THE WANGORA"

CHAPTER III LIFE AT KAMINA

CHAPTER IV STARTING "ON TREK"

CHAPTER V ATAKPAME TO SOKODE

CHAPTER VI IN THE CAPITAL OF TSCHAUDJOLAND

CHAPTER VII ALEDJO-KADARA THE SWITZERLAND OF TOGO

CHAPTER VIII AMONG THE BAFILO FOLK

CHAPTER IX ON THE MARCH ONCE MORE

CHAPTER X CHRISTMAS AT SANSANE-MANGU

CHAPTER XI OUR "FARTHEST NORTH"

CHAPTER XII AMONG THE SUMBU SAVAGES

CHAPTER XIII BACK TO MANGU

CHAPTER XIV THROUGH THE KONKOMBWA COUNTRY

CHAPTER XV NAMBIRI TO TSCHOPOWA

CHAPTER XVI THE WOMEN MINERS OF BANJELI

CHAPTER XVII IN A MOUNTAIN COUNTRY

CHAPTER XVIII A WOMAN "PALAVER"

CHAPTER XIX BACK IN SOKODE

CHAPTER XX KAMINA LOME HOME

INDEX

Transcribers' Notes

Transcriber's note: Transcriber added the title and author's name to the original cover and placed these modifications into the Public Domain.

A CAMERA ACTRESS IN THE
WILDS OF TOGOLAND

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

BY
MISS M. GEHRTS

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MAJOR H. SCHOMBURGK

WITH 65 ILLUSTRATIONS & A MAP

PHILADELPHIA
J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY
LONDON: SEELEY, SERVICE & CO. LTD.
1915