Answer:
He claims to be the son of Poseidon.
Many people were suspicious of James II being King because they thought he was pro-French, pro-Catholic and wanted to be an absolute monarch. The English were the arch enemies of France and had just fought to become a Protestant country, opposed to the Catholic Church, the dominant religion in France. The English did not want to have a monarchy in place that had the power to have complete rule over the country, which is what would have happened had their been an absolute monarchy in place.
Two problems sailors faced before the 1400s was they did not have good ways of knowing where they were if they got beyond the sight of land. And 2 the maps were poor and the risk ships were to slow to mak long voyages