Agar kaht-i-mardum uftad, az in sih jins kam giri;
          Eki Afghan, dovvum Sindi[FN#404] siyyum
badjins-i-Kashmiri: 

          Though of men there be famine yet shun these three-
          Afghan, Sindi and rascally Kashmiri.

M. Louis Daville describes the infamies of Lahore and Lakhnau where he found men dressed as women, with flowing locks under crowns of flowers, imitating the feminine walk and gestures, voice and fashion of speech, and ogling their admirers with all the coquetry of bayaderes.  Victor Jacquemont’s Journal de Voyage describes the pederasty of Ranjit Singh, the “Lion of the Panjab,” and his pathic Gulab Singh whom the English inflicted upon Cashmir as ruler by way of paying for his treason.  Yet the Hindus, I repeat, hold pederasty in abhorrence and are as much scandalised by being called Gand-mara (anus-beater) or Gandu (anuser) as Englishmen would be.  During the years 1843-44 my regiment, almost all Hindu Sepoys of the Bombay Presidency, was stationed at a purgatory called Bandar Gharra,[FN#405] a sandy flat with a scatter of verdigris-green milk-bush some forty miles north of Karachi the headquarters.  The dirty heap of mud-and-mat hovels, which represented the adjacent native village, could not supply a single woman; yet only one case of pederasty came to light and that after a tragical fashion some years afterwards.  A young Brahman had connection with a soldier comrade of low caste and this had continued till, in an unhappy hour, the Pariah patient ventured to become the agent.  The latter, in Arab.  Al-Fa’il =the “doer,” is not an object of contempt like Al-Maful = the “done”; and the high caste sepoy, stung by remorse and revenge, loaded his musket and deliberately shot his paramour.  He was hanged by court martial at Hyderabad and, when his last wishes were asked, he begged in vain to be suspended by the feet; the idea being that his soul, polluted by exiting “below the waist,” would be doomed to endless trans-migrations through the lowest forms of life.

Beyond India, I have stated, the Sotadic Zone begins to broaden out, embracing all China, Turkistan and Japan.  The Chinese, as far as we know them in the great cities, are omnivorous and omnifutuentes:  they are the chosen people of debauchery, and their systematic bestiality with ducks, goats, and other animals is equalled only by their pederasty.  Kaempfer and Orlof Toree (Voyage en Chine) notice the public houses for boys and youths in China and Japan.  Mirabeau (L’Anandryne) describes the tribadism of their women in hammocks.  When Pekin was plundered the Harems contained a number of balls a little larger than the old musket-bullet, made of thin silver with a loose pellet of brass inside somewhat like a grelot;[FN#406] these articles were placed by the women between the labia and an up-and-down movement on the bed gave a pleasant titillation when nothing better was to be procured.  They have every artifice of luxury, aphrodisiacs, erotic perfumes