lamu

Updated: June 14, 2025

I tried all I could to guide and console her, and she listened to all very eagerly. Her look and manner thrilled me. I promised to see the Elders and submit her appeal. But Lamu appeared and pled her own cause before them with convincing effect. She was baptized and admitted along with other nine. And that Communion Day will be long remembered by many souls on Aniwa.

John Gibson Paton - The Story of John G. Paton: Or Thirty Years Among South Sea Cannibals

In due course we left Lamu, and ten days afterwards we found ourselves at a spot called Charra, on the Tana River, having gone through many adventures which need not be recorded here.

Henry Rider Haggard - Allan Quatermain