Early in 1844 Sultan Sayyid Said gave the German missionary Johann Ludwig Krapf (1810-1881) permission to establish a mission on the coast. Krapf arrived in Mombasa on 13 March 1844. He was joined in 1846 by Johannes Rebmann (1820-1876). On 12 November 1848 Rebmann started a journey into the interior. The Church Missionary Intelligencer reported that, The ultimate object, which our Missionaries had in view, has been to reach Uniamési, that interior country where the roads to East Africa and West Africa diverge. Uniamési was said to lie about 150 to 200 hours to the west of the Chagga kingdom, which lay on the slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro.