I860.] THE NASSICK BOY RICHARD DIES. 53 



Manindi, who are either Ajawas (Waiyau),* or pretended 

 Mazitu, had tried to cross the Eovuma from the north bank. 

 They came as plunderers, and Musa having received no 

 assistance was now ready to defend the goods. A shot or 

 two from the people of Kitwanga made the Wanindi desert 

 after they had entered the water. 



Six sepoys and Simon had come up this length ; Reuben 

 and Mabruki reported Richard to be dead. This poor boy 

 was left with the others at Liponde, and I never saw him 

 again. I observed him associating too much with the sepoys ; 

 and often felt inclined to reprove him, as their conversation 

 is usually very bad, but I could not of my own knowledge 

 say so. He came on with the others as far as Hassane or 

 Pachassane : there he was too weak to come further, and 

 as the sepoys were notoriously skulkers, I feared that poor 

 Richard was led away by them, for I knew that they had 

 made many attempts to draw away the other Nassick boys 

 from their duty. "When, however, Abraham came up and 

 reported Richard left behind by the sepoys, I became 

 alarmed, and sent off three boys with cordials to help him 

 on : two days after Abraham left he seems to have died, 

 and I feel very sorry that I was not there to do what I could. 

 I am told now that he never consented to the sepoy tempta- 

 tion : he said to Abraham that he wished he were dead, he 

 was so much troubled. The people Avhere he died were not 

 very civil to Simon. 



The sepoys had now made themselves such an utter 

 nuisance that I felt that I must take the upper hand with 

 them, so I called them up this morning, and asked if they 

 knew the punishment they had incurred by disobeying 

 orders, and attempting to tamper with the Nassick boys to 



* Further -westward amongst the Manganja or Nyassa people the Waiyau 

 tribe is called " Ajawa," and we find Livingstone always speaking of them 

 as Ajawas in his previous explorations on the River Rovuma. (See ' The 

 Zambesi and its Tributaries.') — Ed. 



