虽然直到现在欧洲人没来住过，但这名称不失为一种预言，还不能断定它是夸大之词。

Though no Europeans had ever stopped there, the name served well as a kind of prophecy and not as an empty boast.

研究人员就这些谎言分成小的谎言，夸大之词和彻头彻尾的谎言，而最多的是最后一种。

The lies they told were categorised as either subtle, exaggerations or outright lies. The most popular category of lie was the outright lie.