But it was very popular abroad, was translated into three or four languages, and was apparently taken as a genuine account.
Neville's art is in fact not inconsiderable.

Earlier voyages and travels of course supplied him with his technical and geographical details: and the codification of the Isle of Pines suggests the Bacon-Harrington tradition.

But he has got the vividness and realism which have usually been lacking before: and though some of his details are pretty "free" it is by no means only through such things that these qualities are secured.

To Cyrano de Bergerac he bears no likeness at all.

In fact, though Neville _was_ a satirist, satire does not seem to have been in any way his object here.