CHAPTER LXIII.
Odo And Its Lord Time now to enter upon some further description of the island and its lord.
And first for Media: a gallant gentleman and king.

From a goodly stock he came.

In his endless pedigree, reckoning deities by decimals, innumerable kings, and scores of great heroes, chiefs, and priests.

Nor in person, did he belie his origin.

No far-descended dwarf was he, the least of a receding race.