The extract at the buy.com site is riddled with errors scarcely less flagrant, including (it would seem) forgetting that ‘Howard Vyse’ is a surname. So much for the depth of his research, some 27 years on from his first publication of the forgery claim.

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A detailed day-by-day diary that he kept records the desperation as nothing worthwhile was found. . . .

What Sitchin has seen is the published account - and Vyse makes it perfectly clear that this was written after the event, in 1838: it is not a trancript of his manuscript journal, which Sitchin manifestly lacks the wit or competence to trace.

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. . . As the year 1837 began and his funds were running out, the frustrated Vyse started to use gunpowder . . .

If Vyse was running out of funds, how (Mr. Sitchin might like to explain) was he able to finance not only Perring’s continued explorations but also two expensive publications? Why is there every indication that Vyse (who owned considerable estates) continued as prosperous as before?

M.