{"topic":"arguin","count":1,"articles":[{"id":"britannica-11-arguin","work_id":"britannica-11","title":"Arguin","normalized_title":"arguin","slug":"arguin","aliases":[],"subtitle":"Internet Archive OCR import","body_text":"ARGUIN, an island (identified by some writers with Hanno's Cerne), off the west coast of Africa, a little south of Cape Blanco, in 20° 25' N., 16° 37' W. It is some 4 m. long by i\\ broad, produces gum-arabic, and is the seat of a lucrative turtle-fishery. Off the island, which was discovered by the Portuguese in the i Sth century, are extensive and very dangerous reefs. Arguin was occupied in turn by Portuguese, Dutch, English and\" French; and to France it now belongs. The aridity of the soil and the bad anchorage prevent a permanent settlement. The fishery is mostly carried on by inhabitants of the Canary Isles. In July 1816 the French frigate \" Medusa,\" which carried officers on their way to Senegal to take possession of that country for France, was wrecked off Arguin, 350 lives being lost.","body_html":"<p>ARGUIN, an island (identified by some writers with Hanno&#x27;s Cerne), off the west coast of Africa, a little south of Cape Blanco, in 20° 25&#x27; N., 16° 37&#x27; W. It is some 4 m. long by i\\ broad, produces gum-arabic, and is the seat of a lucrative turtle-fishery. Off the island, which was discovered by the Portuguese in the i Sth century, are extensive and very dangerous reefs. Arguin was occupied in turn by Portuguese, Dutch, English and&quot; French; and to France it now belongs. The aridity of the soil and the bad anchorage prevent a permanent settlement. The fishery is mostly carried on by inhabitants of the Canary Isles. In July 1816 the French frigate &quot; Medusa,&quot; which carried officers on their way to Senegal to take possession of that country for France, was wrecked off Arguin, 350 lives being lost.</p>","volume_id":"britannica-11-v2","page_range_label":"Vol. 2, pp. 482-482","source_url":"https://archive.org/details/encyclopaediabri02chisrich/page/n529/mode/1up","text_source_url":"https://archive.org/download/encyclopaediabri02chisrich/encyclopaediabri02chisrich_djvu.txt","scan_source_url":"https://archive.org/details/encyclopaediabri02chisrich","quality_status":"ocr-imported-page-aligned","parser_version":"ia-djvu-xml-v1","page_refs":[{"page_number":"482","label":"p. 482","image_url":"/source-assets/scans/britannica-11/encyclopaediabri02chisrich/encyclopaediabri02chisrich_0530.jpg","source_image_url":"https://archive.org/download/encyclopaediabri02chisrich/encyclopaediabri02chisrich_jp2.zip/encyclopaediabri02chisrich_jp2%2Fencyclopaediabri02chisrich_0530.jp2&ext=jpg","source_url":"https://archive.org/details/encyclopaediabri02chisrich/page/n529/mode/1up"}],"work":{"id":"britannica-11","slug":"britannica-11","title":"Encyclopaedia Britannica","short_title":"Britannica 11th","edition":"11th edition","publisher":"Cambridge University Press","publication_start_year":1910,"publication_end_year":1911,"language":"English","country":"United Kingdom / United States","copyright_status_note":"First published before 1931; treated as public domain in the United States. 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