[36] “Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature,” vol. iii, page 351.
[37] Smollett gives a good account of the Carthagena expedition in his “Roderick Random,” and for a good satisfactory detail of the blundering Walcheren expedition the reader is referred to Harriet Martineau’s “History of England,” vol. i, pages 269, 272, 273, and 354.
[38] Schoopanism, or pæderastia, is at times practiced by the Omahas, and the man or boy who suffers as the passive agent is called min-quga, or hermaphrodite.—“Third Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology.” By J. W. Powell. Washington, 1881, 1882.
[39] When the missionaries first arrived in this region they found men dressed as women and performing women’s duties who were kept for unnatural purposes. From their youth up they were treated, instructed, and used as females, and were even frequently publicly married to the chiefs or great men.—Bancroft’s works, vol. i, “Native Races,” page 415.
[40] “Recherches Philosophiques sur les Americains,” tome ii.
[41] “The History of the Hebrew Commonwealth.” From the German of John Jahn, D.D. Page 25. Oxford, 1840.
[42] “L’Hermaphrodite devant le Code Civil.” Par le Docteur Charles Debierre. Bailliére et Fils. Paris, 1886.
[43] “Recherches Philosophiques sur les Americains,” tome ii, page 78.
[44] “L’Hermaphrodite devant le Code Civil.” Debierre.
[45] Occidental Medical Times, Sacramento, Cal., October, 1890, page 543.