It is courage and the love of adventure that guide their steps!
What do you think? Will these soft fingertips hit the mark?...
This scene was not taken from a cinema film; it is fact, showing the courage of woman, who has left no door unknocked — not even the wilds of Africa!
This expedition was organized by an American girl named "Beverly Yuthan," who announced it with this phrase: "Is there any woman who will go to Africa?" And she added to the announcement: "The number wanted is fifteen women, their ages between 28 and 38; the expenses for the month come to two thousand five hundred dollars."
This young lady intended to visit Africa and wanted company, which she was quick to find; the first thing she thought of was to find a white man expert in the haunts of game, and she got the very man who guided "Ava Gardner" and "Clark Gable" in the film "Mogambo."
Four months passed from the date of the announcement, and the girls left America aboard an airplane that carried them over wastelands, seas, and jungles. The party included six married ladies and two divorced ladies, and the rest unmarried — the eldest of them nearing sixty and the youngest twenty-seven; they carried with them baggage and medicines, along with a bouquet of dreams