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CHAP, XL 
Reception at Chend: by Sittina——Converfations with her—Enter the Dea 
Sert—Pillars of moving Sand—The Simoom——Latitude of Chiggre. 
7 NHENDI, or Chandi, is a large village, the capital of its - 
| diftrict, the government of which belongs to Sittina, 
(as fhe is called) which fignifies the Miftrefs, or the Lady, fhe 
being fifter to Wed Ageeb, the principal of the Arabs in 
‘this 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 mother’s death, 
and who, in effect, governed all the affairs of his kindred al- 
ready. The governor of Chendi is called in difcourfe Mek 
-e) Jaheleen, prince of the Arabs of Beni Korerlh, who are 
~all fettled, as I have already faid, about the bottom of At 
cbara, on both fides of the Magiran. 
“THERE is a tradition at Chendi, that a woman, whofe 
‘name was Hendaqué, 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 Hendaqué, the native, or 
Wat. IV. 3X amifttrefs, 
