Press sheet for WAMBA, A CHILD OF THE JUNGLE, 1913

              W A MBA
A  CHILD  OF  THE  JUNGLE
Written by "Big" Otto Breilkreutz
Produced by Colin Campbell
At The  Selig  Wild  Animal  Farm
Los Angeles, Cal., U. S. A.
Copyright 1913, by
The Selig Polyscope Company
All Rights Reserved.
Special Release 5-26-13.
A Remarkable Drama of Life
in the Tropical Wilds
IN TWO REELS
r- Cast  of  Principal  Characters '
"PORTUGUESE PETE" .Thomas Santschi
WAMBA, Pete's Wife Bessie Eyton
DR. RICE, The Trading Post Surgeon Frank Clark
MRS. RICE, The Doctor's Wife Eugenie Besserer
"BABY" LILLIAN, Their Daughter "Baby" Lillian Wade
Traders. Natives, Servants, Etc., Etc.
Time:    The Present. Place:    The Jungles of East Africa.
FIRST     REEL
I HE story of Wamba is laid in that picturesque but dangerous strip of
coast country known as the British East African Jungles. Wamba
is the simple-hearted, half-breed wife of a brutal Portuguese who
lives in a thatch-roofed hut on a clearing in the jungle. By acting
as professional guide and hunter, Pete is enabled to earn a scant
living. He is addicted to the rum jug and, as a consequence,
abuses Wamba terribly.
One day Wamba's child falls sick and she is unable to relieve the little ones
suffering. Pete returns to the hut in a surly mopd and starts in to abuse his timerous
wife. She pleads with him to allow her to take the sick child to Dr. Rice, the
surgeon at the British Trading Post some miles distant. Pete turns a deaf ear to her
pleadings and orders her to take the child out of his sight. Then he proceeds to
empty his rum jug. Finally he falls into a drunken stupor. The child's condition
has become worse rapidly. Finally the sympathetic mother love of Wamba overcomes the fear which she holds for her husband, and she decides to desert him.
Taking only her child, she steals out of the hut, past the sleeping Pete, and makes
her way through the dense and untravelled jungles to the doctor's home. Her path
is beset with many dangers and more than once she is forced into hazardous encounters with wild beasts. She finally manages to reach the trading post where she
is received in the kindliest possible manner by Dr. Rice and his wife. They are
deeply incensed at the story of Pete's latest brutality and decide to protect the
helpless woman from any chance of further attacks of this nature. Mrs. Rice needs
a nurse to look after Lillian, her little girl, and as the white child seems to take to
Wamba from the first, they arrange to retain her in the household. In spite of the
doctor's best efforts to save the native child, Wamba's baby dies, and the heart
broken mother pours out her affection on little Lillian.
In the meantime Pete has awakened. Finding his wife and child gone, he
proceeds to track them through the jungle. He is thrown
off the trail upon several occasions but eventually arrives
at the doctor's house where he attempts to drag Wamba
away with him. The doctor intervenes, thus incurring
Pete's everlasting enmity.
SECOND     REEL
Pete lingers in the community nursing his grudge. Day by day he watches
for his chance to work revenge. Arrives a day when Dr. and Mrs. Rice ride away
to a neighboring settlement. This gives Pete the chance he has been waiting for.
Slowly and cautiously he creeps up behind the unsuspecting Wamba and with one
blow stuns her into insensibility. Then he snatches up the child and departs into the
jungle. Little Lillian manages to escape from the Portuguese brute but in her efforts
to evade her kidnapper she becomes lost in the dangerous jungles. Her P»*h is
beset with prowling, man eating lions and her many escapes from torturous deaths
are little short of miraculous. Pete finds the trail she has taken and once more
starts in pursuit. "Baby" Lillian arrives at the bank of a precipice and sees *^e
murky waters of the river, flowing many feet below. She is about fo turn back
when she sees Pete following her. He is closely pursued by a huge lion. The tiny
tot takes in the situation at a glance and, apparantly without hesitation plunges into
the deep waters below. Luckily she is able to swim and she bravely strikes out for
the opposite shore. Pete, meantime, has jumped into the water and hidden under
an overhanging rock.
By this time Wamba has recovered consciousness. She seizes the doctor's
rifle and, with the quick instinct of the jungle raised woman, traces Pete and the
baby through the forest. Lillian reaches the opposite shore but this proves little
satisfaction to the tiny tot, for she is immediately followed by other lions. She runs
to a clearing and takes refuge in a hollow log. Just as the beasts are about to drag
the child out and devour her, Wamba rushes into the scene and shoots one lion.
This frightens the others away, and soon afterward the child is being clutched to
the bosom of the mulatto woman.
By this time the Rices have returned. They discover the absence of the nurse
and Lillian. A posse is immediately organized and starts to search the jungles.
Wamba and the child are found and brought to safety. The posse then follow Pete's
trail. This leads them to his shack but upon arrival
they find that their services will not be necessary. Beasts
of the jungle have followed him to the hut and his mutilated
body is all that remains of the evident conflict.
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"Baby" Lillian pleads with Wamba.
"Wamba" resc
"Baby" Lillian.