miles, we came to Gooz, a fmall village on our left, where
we found plenty o f good food for our camels. At fix we
alighted at Fakari. Chendi was now five miles eaft o f us
where We arrived at eight .o’clock in the morning o f the 4th
o f Oftober.
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C H A P . XI. •
¡Reception at Chendi by Sutina— Convcrfatwns with her!— Enter the Dee
J irt— Pillars o f moving Sand-—The {¡imoom— Latitude o f Chiggre.
CHENDI, or Chandi, is a large village, the capital o f its
diftrict, the government o f which belongs to Sittina,
?(as ihe is called) which fignifies the Miftrefs, or the Lady, fhe
ibeing filler to Wed Ageeb, the principal o f the Arabs in
'this country. She had been married, but her huiband was
dead. She had one ion, Idris Wed el Faal, who was to fuc-
-ceed to the government o f Chendi upon his mother’s death,
and who, in effeft, governed all the affairs o f his kindred already.
The governor o f Chendi is called in difcourfe Mek
-el Jaheleen, prince o f the Arabs o f Beni Koreiih, who are
a ll fettled, as I have already fiaid, about the bottom o f At-
ibara, on both fides o f the Magiran.
T h e r e is a tradition at Chendi, that a woman, whofe
name was Hendaque, once governed all that country,
whence w e might imagine that this was part o f the k in g dom
o f Candace; for writing this name in Greek letters
i t will come to be no other than Hendaque, the native, or
V ol. IV. .3 X miftrefs,