What is the topic of this passage? What is the author's purpose for writing this passage? Madagascar is an island lying about 1,000 miles south of Socotra. The people are Saracens who worship Mahomet.

What is the topic of this passage?

What is the author's purpose for writing this passage?
Madagascar is an island lying about 1,000 miles south of
Socotra. The people are Saracens who worship Mahomet.
They have four sheikhs--that is to say, four elders-who
exercise authority over the whole island. ... It is said to
measure about 4,000 miles in circumference. The people
live by trade and industry.
-"The Middle East,"
Marco Polo

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