Chapter X.

The Dragon-slayer.

Demi-gods--Alcestis--Herakles--The Ghilghit Fiend--Incarnate
deliverer of Ghilghit--A Dardistan Madonna--The religion
of Atheism--Resuscitation of Dragons--St. George and his
Dragon--Emerson and Ruskin on George--Saintly allies of the
Dragon