when Johann Ludwig Krapf of the *CMS settled at Rabai, near Mombasa, but little progress was made by missionaries in this predominantly Muslim area until the 1870s, when attention was drawn to the E. African slave trade and a settlement for freed slaves was established at Freretown, Mombasa. This eventually prospered and the first Kenyans were ordained in 1885. The Uganda Railway, begun in 1896, gave access to the cool, densely populated central highland and RC and Protestant missionaries quickly