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Updated: October 20, 2026
In Magaster, a city which according to Marco Polo, was governed by "four old men," they sold "vast quantities of elephants' teeth." Rabanus, a follower of Alcuin, born in 776, was the author of an interesting encyclopædia, rejoicing in the comprehensive title, "On the Universe."
Of Madagascar, Ethiopia, Abyssinia, and several other Countries . A thousand miles south from Socotora is Magaster or Madagascar, one of the largest and richest islands in the world , 3000 miles in circumference, which is inhabited by Saracens, and governed by four old men. The currents of the sea in those parts are of prodigious force.