That it was perfectly easy for him to lie--even natural--was no surprise to me.

This seemed to accord with his other characteristics; nor was it altogether strange that he should be fairly familiar with these waters.

If, as he claimed, he had once been connected with the Spanish navy, which quite likely was true, even if he had never visited this coast in person, he might have had access to their charts and maps.

It was well known that early Spanish navigators had explored every inch of this coast line, and that their tracings, hastily as they had been made, were the most correct in existence.

His memory of these might yet retain sufficient details through which he could pretend to a knowledge much greater than he really possessed.
No, I would dismiss that thought permanently from my mind, as being quite impossible.