magaster

Updated: May 20, 2025

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."

Julia de Wolf Gibbs Addison - Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages: A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance

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.

Robert Kerr - A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 01 : Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time