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[s. 727] : A town in the United Provinces, India, situated about 30 miles S. by W. of Faizabad. Station of the ZBM, with (1903) 5 women mi ionaries, 5 native workers, 1 day school, and 1 orphanage. SULU ISLANDS An archipelago lying between Mindanao, the southern island of the Philippines, and the northeast extremity of British Borneo. By the treaty of peace, December, 1898, these islands were ceded to the United States by Spain, and they are included in statistical reports with the Philippine Islands. There are over fifty islands, the largest of which is thirty-six miles long: The population of the Sulu Islands is entirely Mohammedan in religion, and no mi ionary work has, as yet (1903), been attempted among them. 727