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The Famao people of Siyu on Pate Island claim Chinese ancestry as descendetns of shipwrecked Chinese sailors from Zheng He's fleet. The Omani Sultan of Zanzibar built the fort here in the 19th century.

Pate Island, Kenya

Author: Michael Yamashita

©Michael Yamashita

Photo size: 28.2 Mpixels (80.7 MB uncompressed) - 6500x4341 pixels (21.7x14.5 in / 55x36.8 cm at 300 ppi)

Photo keywords: Famao people, Kenya, page 422-423, Silk Road, Siyu on Pate Island, Swahili Coast, Zheng He book

Published in: Zheng He, Kenya, China's Great Armada

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