When he arrived in Mombasa, Kenya, in 1844, the religious practice on the coast of East Africa was predominately Muslim, while many of the peoples who lived inland held to their traditional, animistic religious beliefs.
وهكذا ،‏ استطاع على الفور ان يبدأ بترجمة الكتاب المقدس في حزيران (‏ يونيو )‏ عام ١٨٤٤ .‏