Boca Tigre (also Bocca Tigris, and in English Bogue), the Portuguese translation of the Chinese name Hu-mun, 'tiger's mouth,' given to a portion of the estuary of the Canton River (see CANTON). On its rocky islands are situated the Bogue forts, which have been more than once captured by the British.
Boca Tigre
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 2: Beaugency to Cataract, p. 256
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