A lot of what the visitors coming to the warrell's house to see this princess might have known about the world east of europe came from literature. People brought illustrations and objects for her to identify. They kept going back over the biggest clue they had the sailor manuel anesso's story about how the princess had arrived. Aneso seems to have been a bit of a rogue who probably thought that he could kind of in d on the coat tails of this person's celebrity by making up a story that would sound good enough, you know.