Watching the dhows
Lamu · 18 February 2024
Two men in the shade of a mangrove at the water's edge, looking out at the boats rather than talking. The boats are dhows, the lateen-rigged sailing craft of the Indian Ocean, and until living memory they were how everything reached Lamu: the monsoon blows from the north-east from November to March and from the south-west for the rest of the year, and the trade with Arabia and India ran out on one wind and home on the other.
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