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As illustration only from a Japanese painted namban showing the earliest dark people arriving in Japan (with the Portuguese)
Li Kung-Lin (d1106): Foreign and Strange Lands N-Sung Painter
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Li Gonglin (李公麟, 1049–1106), was a Chinese antiquarian, painter, and politician during the Northern Song Dynasty. Born into a scholarly home near what is modern day Lu'an City, Li Gonglin passed the highest level of civil service examinations at 21 and became a civil officer. He became famous for his paintings of horses, then he turned to Buddhism and Taoism religious painting, as well as portrait and landscape painting. To him we own the oldest mention of K'un-lun Ts'eng-k'i (Madagascar) in Chinese sources.
Also called Li Lung Mien
Taken from: Probstein Catalog 1913 p19-20
A set of five drawings in monochrome representing scenes from: " Foreign and strange lands." Opposite each picture an explanation.
1 The San-foh-ts (Sumatra)
2 Suan-lo (Siam)
3 The Hwei-Huh (Ouigour Turks)
4 The K'un-lun Ts'eng-k'i (Madagascar)
5 Fu-Sang state (Japan)
The medieval drawing of Madagascar was put for sale in London in 1913 for 50 British pounds. The text accompanying is given under. I do not know where the drawing is today. No picture of the drawing is known.
From the description in the catalog it seems it is not a drawing of tribute bearers (as the other prints of Li Kung Lin are) but a drawing of the country itself.
The K'un lun Ts'eng K'i country
In the south west parts adjoining is an island in the sea. This land possess a huge bird.
You can cut the quills of their wings to make water-carrying utensils out of them (1). Moreover they are black bodied wild men, if you entice them with food you barter as many as you like to do work (as slaves) for the foreign trader.
(1) That the tube of the feathers of the Roc bird are big enough to be used as buckets is found in: Buzurg ibn Shahriyar (955); Li Kung-Lin (d1106); Chou Ch'u-fei (1178); Ch'en Yuan-Ching (late12 century); Chao Ju-Kua (1226); Ibn Said al Maghribi (1250); Luo Miandao (fl. ca. 1270); Marco Polo (1295); Al-Dimashqi (1325); Chou Chih-Chung (1366); Ning Xian Wang (1430); Ibn Al Wardi (1456); Alf layla wa Layla (15th); Wang Khi (1609).
Li Kung-Lin:
Barbarian Tribute painting
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Taken from: 中國 歷代 職貢圖의 韓人圖像과 그 인식 (The Historical Recognition of China To the Korean Race in Chinese 職貢圖 Zhigong-tu by Jeong, Eun-joo in Journal of Korean Literature in Chinese 2015
Li Ganglin painted a 10 scenes of tribute paying countries:
韃靼
(1), 賓童龍 (2), 崑崙層期 (3), 女王 (4), 浡泥
(5), 呂宋(女送)(6), 回鶻 (7), 扶桑
(8), 三佛齊 (9), 暹羅 (10)
Dada, Bin-Tong-Long, Kunlun-ceng-qi, Nu-Wang, Bo-ni, Lu-Song (Nu-Song), Hui-hu, Fusang, San-fu-qi, Xianluo (in the National Palace Museum – Taiwan)
(1) 韃靼 Tatars; The Tatars is an umbrella term for different Turkic ethnic groups bearing the name "Tatar".
(2) 賓童龍 Bintonglong; = Panduranga; A historic name for one of the main cities in the Champa Kingdom, near present-day Phan Rang, Vietnam.
(3) 崑崙層期 Kunlun ceng qi; Madagascar.
(4) 女王 Nu-Wang ; land ruled by women.
(5) 浡泥 Bo-ni; on Sumatra; another is Persia.
(6) 呂宋(女送) Lu-Song (Nu-Song) ; Luzon in the Philippines/ Nu-Song means female???
(7) 回鶻 Hui-hu; Uighur: Uyghur Khaganate or Uyghur Empire was a Turkic empire that existed for about a century between the mid-8th and 9th centuries north of China.
(8) 扶桑 Fusang, legendary land to the East commonly assumed to be Japan.
(9) 三佛齊 San-fu-qi =Srivijaya was a Buddhist thalassocratic empire based on the island of Sumatra.
(10) 暹羅 Xianluo; Short for 暹羅斛／暹罗斛 (as recorded in the History of Ming), which was a combined name for two states in modern-day Thailand.
Li Kung-Lin:
Barbarian Tribute painting Title: 诸夷职贡图册 册页 水墨绢本--------------------------------------------------
Taken from: Tokyo Central 5th Anniversary Auction September 2015
Also called Li Lung Mien; Li Gonglin, 李公麟, style name Boshi (伯時), art name Longmian Jushi.
He painted a 10 scenes of tribute paying countries: 三佛斋国 (1)、扶桑国 (2)、回鹘国 (3)、高丽国 (4)、鞑靼国 (5)、浡泥国 (6)、女送国 (7)、昆仑层期国 (8)、女王国 (9)、暹罗国使者 (10). San fu zhai guo, Fusang guo, Huihu guo, Gaoli guo, Da da guo, Bo ni guo, Nu song guo, Kunlun ceng qi guo (Madagascar), Nu wangguo, Xian luo guo shizhe (Siam).
(1) 三佛斋国 San fu zhai guo =Srivijaya was a Buddhist thalassocratic empire based on the island of Sumatra.
(2) 扶桑国 Fusang guo, legendary land to the East commonly assumed to be Japan.
(3) 回鹘国 Huihu guo ; Uighur: Uyghur Khaganate or Uyghur Empire was a Turkic empire that existed for about a century between the mid-8th and 9th centuries north of China.
(4) 高丽国 Gaoli guo; = Korea.
(5) 鞑靼国 Da da guo; Tatars; The Tatars is an umbrella term for different Turkic ethnic groups bearing the name "Tatar".
(6) 浡泥国 Bo ni guo ; on Sumatra; another is Persia.
(7) 女送国 Nu song guo; land of women.
(8) 昆仑层期国 Kunlun ceng qi guo (Madagascar).
(9) 女王国 Nu wangguo ; land ruled by women.
(10) 暹罗国使者 Xian luo guo shizhe (Siam).
Here the 10 countries not in any order. In the middle of the upper row: Madagascar.
The drawing is not specific for Madagascar. It is a theme used for several countries in Barbarian Tribute paintings. Under some examples.
But the text (as given in the upper drawing) is specific. It is exactly the same text as for the other document: Foreign and Strange Lands; of the same author:
The K'un lun Ts'eng K'i country
In the south west parts adjoining is an island in the sea. This land possesses a huge bird.
You may cut the quills of their wings to make water-carrying utensils out of them (1). Moreover they are black bodied wild men, if you entice them with food you barter as many as you like to do work (as slaves) for the foreign trader.
(1) That the tube of the feathers of the Roc bird are big enough to be used as buckets is found in: Buzurg ibn Shahriyar (955); Li Kung-Lin (d1106); Chou Ch'u-fei (1178); Ch'en Yuan-Ching (late12 century); Chao Ju-Kua (1226); Ibn Said al Maghribi (1250); Luo Miandao (fl. ca. 1270); Marco Polo (1295); Al-Dimashqi (1325); Chou Chih-Chung (1366); Ning Xian Wang (1430); Ibn Al Wardi (1456); Alf layla wa Layla (15th); Wang Khi (1609).
Li Kung-Lin (d1106): 职贡图真迹册八帧 (Eight Frames of the Authentic Album of Zhi Gong Tu)
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Taken from: https://c.m.163.com/news/a/HQT722F60552K5Z3.html
In a scroll attributed to Li Gonglin and held by the Princeton University of Art Museum, tribute bearers from the following countries are depicted: Boni 浡泥 (western Borneo), Sanfoqi 三佛齊 (south-eastern Sumatra), Fusang 扶桑 (Japan), Kunlun Cengqi 崐崙層期 (Madagascar), Nuwang guo 女王國 (Queen Country= name for Japan when ruled by an Empress), Huilin 回鶻,(Uighurs), Dada 韃靼 (Tatars), and Nusong 女送 (Land of Woman).
In the Northern Song Dynasty Li Gonglin's "Eight Frames of the Authentic Album of Zhi Gong Tu", there is a picture
of "Kunlun Sengqi State" ,
whose inscription is as follows:
"The kingdom of the Kunlun Sengqi is in the southwest, and its territory is connected to the island. There are big birds in the land, and people cut off their feather pipes as tools for eaves (draining the eaves), and there are savages roaming around, each with a sword, yet justice is lightly existing .”