Tamu

One was called Tamu (Tom) by the natives, and from the ease with which he spoke the Gilbert Island dialect and his familiarity with native customs, he had plainly lived many years among the natives; the other was a tall, dark-skinned, and morose-looking man of nearly fifty.

The Ebbing Of The Tide South Sea Stories - 1896 Louis Becke 1884

* "Tamu" signifies to converse about military affairs.

A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era Dairoku Kikuchi 1886

The indigenous Gurung community celebrates the year of the vulture during Tamu Lhosa on Friday.

Asia in Pictures 2012

The Tamu are being sent into exile, but to Obis, where they can be kept an eye on, not Samerra.

In Gordath Wood: Writer Patrice Sarath » Lady Blackheart 2009

“The Tamu are hotheaded troublemakers who have willfully declared allegiance to their own God and will stop at nothing to sow discord throughout the country to further their own agenda, which is nothing more than toppling the throne.”

In Gordath Wood: Writer Patrice Sarath » Lady Blackheart 2009

“But I never stopped to think what the Tamu wanted.”

In Gordath Wood: Writer Patrice Sarath » Lady Blackheart 2009

“None of ‘em have Tamu powers that I know of, and since I’m captain, they would have told me.”

In Gordath Wood: Writer Patrice Sarath » Lady Blackheart 2009

She thought of the Tamu outcasts waiting to sail to freedom.

In Gordath Wood: Writer Patrice Sarath » Lady Blackheart 2009

The leader of the Tamu came forward, his lined face sorrowful.

In Gordath Wood: Writer Patrice Sarath » Lady Blackheart 2009

I will see it through to the end, she told the Tamu leader.

In Gordath Wood: Writer Patrice Sarath » Lady Blackheart 2009