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significant that the fictitious hero of My Life and Adventures goes around the world but does not stop in Japan.
The reviewers of 1859 did not, collectively, indicate all the plagiarism which we can today detect in Cornwallis' work.
They were able to find a few errors and contradictions and suspected the presence of fabrications. They were least sure of the march of events and of Cornwallis' biography which today make Cornwallis' voyages fictive. But it is clear that the reviewers were all on the right track in suspecting the authenticity of Cornwallis' volumes and in three cases particularly, that is, in the cases of the reviewers in the British Quarterly Review, the Literary Gazette, and the London Spectator Supplement, adduced enough evidence to expose Cornwallis' work as one which could not in the least be trusted.
