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Tonga (FRIENDLY ISLANDS Wesleyan)

or FRIENDLY ISLANDS 430 Wesleyan Methodists succeeded in the work of evangelization, and their labors were finally crowned with such success that most of the inhabitants are now Christians. Nearly all the islands are under the rule of one Christian chief; but by an agreement made between England, Germany, and the United States in 1899 the islands are under the protectorate of Great Britain. Total area 385 square miles. Pop. (1917) 23,766, Europeans 347.