The edge which was nearest the water was black; and the liquid fire, as it rolled down, curled over this in a fantastic shape, cooling and hardening into the form which it thus assumed.

Here, after some search, I found a crevice where I could approach the fire, and I laid the fish upon a crimson rock, which was cooling and hardening into the shape of a vast ledge of lava.

In this way, by the aid of nature, the fish were broiled, and we made our repast.
There was nothing here to invite a longer stay, and we soon returned to the athaleb.

We found the monster, gorged with food, asleep, resting upon his hind legs, with his breast supported against the vast carcass.

Almah called it a jantannin.