THE SOURCE GF THE KILE. ,s*9 



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CHAP. XL 



■Reception at Chend'i by Sittlna—Converfat'ions witb fjer-^— Enter the De^ 

 "ijtrt — Pillars of movmg Sand — The Simoom — Latitude of Chiggre. 



CHENDI, or Chandi, is a large village, the capital of its 

 diftridl, the government of which belongs to Sittina, 

 (as (he is called) which fignifies the Millrefs, or the Lady, fhe 

 i)eing fitter to Wed Ageeb, the principal of the Arabs in 

 rthis country. She had been married, but her hufband was 

 dead. She had one fon, Idris Wed el Faal, who was to fuc- 

 ceed to the government of Chendi upon his motlier's death, 

 and who, in effed, governed all the affairs of his kindred al- 

 ready. The governor of Chendi is called in difcourfe Mek 

 • ei Jaheleen, prince of the Arabs of Beni Koreifh, who are 

 all fettled, as I have already faid, about the bottom of At- 

 bara, on both fides of the Magiran. 



There is a tradition at Chendi, that a woman, whofe 

 name was Hendaque, once governed all that country, 

 whence we might imagine that this was part of the king- 

 dom of Candace ; for writing this name in Greek letters 

 it will come to be no other than Hendaque, the native, or 



Xi^fu IV. 3 X raiftrefs. 



