Note 105 — Chapter IX · THE DEBATABLE LAND (GAWAR, TERGAWAR, MERGAWAR)

There is some real danger in exploring these caverns, for if you do not often find real Jann, you are always liable to stumble on a wolf!

We were once exploring a “cave-monastery,” near Maragha; one feature of which was a long passage, burrowing into the rock, and expanding at intervals into cells, like balls threaded on a string.

Down this we crawled, with an antiquarian’s eagerness, our guide politely allowing us to go first. When we were well in, a voice came from behind us: “Rabbi, there’s a wolf who generally lives down here, but I don’t know if he’s in now!”