Sulu Islands, an archipelago of 162 islands in Asiatic waters, lying to the NE. of Borneo, and extending to the Philippines; belongs to the Spaniards who, in 1876, subdued the piratical Malay inhabitants; the trade in pearls and edible nests is mainly carried on by Chinese.
Population (circa 1900) given as 75,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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