On Lamu Island off the Kenyan coast, local oral tradition maintains that 20 shipwrecked Chinese sailors, possibly part of Zheng's fleet, washed up on shore there hundreds of years ago. Given permission to settle by local tribes after having killed a dangerous python, they converted to Islam and married local women.
On Lamu Island off the Kenyan coast, local oral tradition recounts that 20 shipwrecked Chinese sailors, possibly from Zheng's fleet, washed ashore centuries ago. After killing a dangerous python, they were granted permission by local tribes to settle there and converted to Islam while marrying local women.