CHAP. IX. _Conversations with Achmet--History and Government of Sennaar--Heat--Diseases--Trade of that Country--The Author's distressed Situation--Leaves Sennaar_, 455 CHAP. X. _Journey from Sennaar to Chendi_, 500 CHAP. XI. _Reception at Chendi by Sittina--Conversations with her--Enter the Desert--Pillars of moving Sand--The Simoom--Latitude of Chiggre_, 529 CHAP. XII. _Distresses in the Desert--Meet with Arabs--Camels die--Baggage abandoned--Come to Syene_, 562 CHAP. XIII. _Kind Reception at Assouan--Arrival at Cairo--Transactions with the Bey there--Land at Marseilles_, 602 TRAVELS TO DISCOVER THE SOURCE OF THE NILE. BOOK VII. RETURN FROM THE SOURCE OF THE NILE TO GONDAR--TRANSACTIONS THERE--BATTLE OF SERBRAXOS, AND ITS CONSEQUENCES--THE AUTHOR PREPARES TO LEAVE ABYSSINIA. CHAP. I _Return from the Source of the Nile by Maitsha--Come to the House of Welled Amlac--Reception there--Pass the Nile at Delakus--Arrive at Gondar._ It was on the 10th of November 1770 we left Geesh in our return to Gondar, and passed the Abay, as before, under the church of Saint Michael Sacala. We descended the hill through the wood, crossed the river Davola, and that night halted at a few huts, called Dembea, on the north-east side of the entrance of a valley.