Introduction. 3 ' 
Sayid Said the Sultan, also called the Imaum of Muscat, 
then resident at Zanzibar, gave to the Doctor a kind and 
cordial reception, and showed an unexpected readiness 
to assist him and to further his aims. He furnished 
him with a passport through his dominions, and re- 
commended him to all his subordinate Governors and 
Sheikhs, as " a good man who wished to convert the 
world to God." 
Dr. Krapf next made his way to Mombasa, f^rom 
Mombasa he visited the Wanika, which in the end 
resulted in the selection of Rabai Mpia (in Kinika, 
Mudsi Muvia, New Town), New Rabai, as the spot on 
which to establish the first Christian mission in East 
Africa. Thus was originated what has been called 
the hapless Mombas mission," a misnomer in more 
senses than one. Mombasa never has been mis- 
sioned. The mission thus established was to the 
Wanika, and would be more properly called the 
Kinika mission. As to the term hapless," we beg 
to alter the expression, and to use the word happy 
that mission being, in our opinion, the happiest event 
that has taken place in the history of Eastern Africa. 
Viewed in connection with what must be its ultimate 
outcome, there is something about it truly sublime. 
It marks an era in the history of that portion of the 
country on which shall be inscribed, in unmistakable 
characters, Christianity, Liberty, and Progress. 
Direct missionary labour could not be commenced 
at once. It was necessary first to acquire the lan- 
guages, and to reduce them to form. Dr. Krapf was 
the man for this work. In two years he had written 
a Kisuahili grammar, compiled extensive vocabularies 
in Kisuahili, Kinika, Kikamba, and had done some» 
