te_ who was splendidly
made, prepossessing, and in perfect health. With much reluctance he agreed
to a careful examination. The sexual organs were quite normal, though
perhaps not quite so large as his _physique_ would suggest, but he had
never had intercourse with a woman. On removing his clothes he pressed his
thighs together, as a timid woman would, so as to conceal completely the
sexual organs; Holder says that the thighs "really, or to my fancy," had
the feminine rotundity. He has heard a _bote_ "_beg_ a male Indian to
submit to his caress," and he tells that "one little fellow, while in the
agency boarding-school, was found frequently surreptitiously wearing
female attire. He was punished, but finally escaped from school and became
a _bote_, which vocation he has since followed."

At Tahiti at the beginning of the nineteenth century, Turnbull[34] found
that "there are a set of men in this country whose open profession is of
such abomination that the laudable delicacy of our language will not admit
it to be mentioned. These are called by the natives _Mahoos_; they assume
the dress, attitude, and manners of women, and affect all the fantastic
oddities and coquetries of the vainest of females. They mostly associate
with the women, who court their acquaintance. With the manners of the
women they adopt their peculiar employments, making cloth, bonnets, and
mats; and so completely are they unsexed that had they not been pointed
out to me I should not have known them but as women. I add, with some
satisfaction, that the encouragement of this abomination is almost solely
confined to the chiefs."

Among the Sakalaves of Madagascar there are certain boys called _sekatra_,
as described by Lasnet, who are apparently chosen from childhood on
account of weak or delicate appearance and brought up as girls. They live
like women and have intercourse with men, with or without sodomy, paying
the men who please them.[35]

Among the negro population of Zanzibar forms of homosexuality which are
believed to be congenital (as well as acquired forms) are said to be
fairly common. Their frequency is thought to be due to Arab influence. The
male congenital inverts show from their earliest years no aptitude for
men's occupations, but are attracted toward female occupations. As they
grow older they wear women's clothes, dress their hair in women's fashion,
and behave altogether like women. They associate only with women and with
male prosti