Extraordinary hoaxes of the 18th century
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How to Get Away With Formosa
He was never caught out. And again, it's quite hard to argue with somebody who er sticks to the same line always. He put this into his book as well, because when he wrote his entirely fictitious book about about formosa, whatever he'd said to somebodyr in public, he actually put that in the book. The other great thing he had going for him is that formosa wasn't that well known, certainly not the entire island. So even when people said, well, i've been t formosa, it's nothing like what you're saying, he would say, well, you've only been to the primt o the island. I think so e he couldn
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