Even after the harrowing tale of the survivors got out, no-one in Europe could accept Poyais didn't exist.

即便在幸存者的悲惨故事传出去之后，欧洲也没有人接受波亚斯不存在这一事实。

That October, MacGregor got on a boat and sailed back to Caracas. He never mentioned Poyais again.

同年10月，麦格雷格尔上了一艘船，驶回了加拉加斯，之后再也没有提到过波亚斯。

Especially when the Poyais envoy was related by marriage to Simon-freaking Bolivar.

尤其是波亚斯的使节和可恶的玻利瓦尔有姻亲关系。

For Londoners, it wasn't much of a stretch to believe Poyais might be among them.

对于伦敦人来说，波亚斯可能就是其中之一。

Had they reached the Mosquito Shore, it's likely the death toll of the Poyais scheme would've topped a thousand.

如果他们都到达了蚊子海岸，那么波亚斯计划的死亡人数可能会超过1000人。

And there was the fact that, uniquely for Central America, Poyais had no tropical diseases.

而且，波亚斯没有热带疾病，这在中美洲是独一无二的。

By the fall of 1822, interest in Poyais was running rampant.

到了1822年的秋天，人们对波亚斯的兴趣开始高涨。

That same summer, the Poyais envoy began visiting them. He was offering them an opportunity, he said.

同年夏天，波亚斯特使开始拜访他们。他说自己是在给他们提供一个机会。

Of the 200 or so Poyais settlers who reached the Mosquito Shore, it's estimated over two thirds were killed by tropical diseases.

在抵达蚊子海岸的200多名波亚斯定居者中，据估计有超过三分之二的人死于热带疾病。

Since he'd never followed MacGregor to Florida, or Porto Bello, or even heard of Poyais, he had no idea of MacGregor's true character.

因为他从来没有跟随麦格雷格尔去过佛罗里达，也没去过贝罗港，甚至没听说过波亚斯，所以他对麦格雷格尔的真实性格一无所知。

Under the pseudonym Thomas Strangeways, he published a guidebook to Poyais, detailing the nation's government, its geography, its climate, its architecture.

他用笔名托马斯·斯崔奇威出版了一本《波亚斯旅游指南》，详细介绍了波亚斯的政府、地理、气候和建筑。

So when MacGregor asked a bank to underwrite Poyais bonds, they simply nodded and handed him ￡200,000.

因此，当麦格雷格尔要求一家银行为波亚斯债券承保时，银行直接就点头同意了，给了他20万英镑。

Using that money, MacGregor opened Poyais consulates across Britain, adding to the scheme's veneer of legitimacy.

麦格雷格尔用这笔钱在英国各地开设了波亚斯领事馆，增加了该计划的合法性。

While he never again hit the big time, he always had just enough money coming in to keep the fiction going, to keep people believing in Poyais.

虽然没有获得什么大的成功，但维持骗局的钱总是有的，还是让人们相信波亚斯。

An opportunity not just to better their own lives by moving to Poyais, but an opportunity to establish Scotland's first viable colony.

他们不仅有机会通过搬到波亚斯来改善自己的生活，而且有机会建立苏格兰第一个可行的殖民地。

Today, it's estimated that, between the Poyais scheme and all those times he abandoned his men, Gregor MacGregor was responsible for the deaths of 500 people.

今天，据估计，在波亚斯计划和他抛弃的手下里，格里高尔·麦格雷格尔要为500人的死负责。

So they all had their stuff unloaded onto a deserted stretch of coast, and sent the captain off to find Poyais.

所以他们都把自己的东西卸到了一片荒芜的海岸上，然后派船长去找波亚斯。

Most of those caught up in the Poyais scheme were older folks looking for an easy retirement, or families with young children.

大多数参与波亚斯计划的人都是寻求安逸退休生活的老年人，或者有小孩的家庭。

By winter, investment in Poyais bonds had generated over a billion pounds in today's money. And MacGregor was still selling land to gullible Scots!

到了冬天，对波亚斯债券的投资已经产生了相当于今天的10亿英镑的收益，而此时麦格雷格尔还在把土地卖给那些轻信于人的苏格兰人！

All they had to do, Gregor MacGregor told his fellow Scots, was to buy one of these plots of Poyais land he was selling. Fertile land that would set them for life.

格雷戈·麦格雷格尔告诉他的苏格兰同胞们，他们所要做的就是买一块他要出售的波亚斯土地，那里肥沃的土地可以供他们生活。