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ARGUIN

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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 482 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ARGUIN , an See also:

island, (identified by some writers with See also:Hanno's Cerne), off the See also:west See also:coast of See also:Africa, a little See also:south of Cape Blanco, in 2o° 25' N., 16° 37' W. It is some 4 M. See also:long by 21 broad, produces See also:gum-arabic, and is the seat of a lucrative turtle-See also:fishery. Off the island, which was discovered by the Portuguese in the 15th See also:century, are extensive and very dangerous reefs. Arguin was occupied in turn by Portuguese, Dutch, See also:English and See also:French; and to See also:France it now belongs. The aridity of the See also:soil and the See also:bad anchorage prevent a permanent See also:settlement. The fishery is mostly carried on by inhabitants of the See also:Canary Isles. In See also:July 1816 the French See also:frigate " See also:Medusa,'- which carried See also:officers on their way to See also:Senegal to take See also:possession of that See also:country for France, was wrecked off Arguin, 350 lives being lost.

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