A glance at Mr. Bancroft[FN#413] proves the abnormal development of sodomy amongst the savages and barbarians of the New World.  Even his half-frozen Hyperboreans “possess all the passions which are supposed to develop most freely under a milder temperature” (i. 58).  “The voluptuousness and polygamy of the North American Indians, under a temperature of almost perpetual winter, is far greater than that of the most sensual tropical nations” (Martin’s Brit.  Colonies iii. 524).  I can quote only a few of the most remarkable instances.  Of the Koniagas of Kadiak Island and the Thinkleets we read (i. 81-82), “The most repugnant of all their practices is that of male concubinage.  A Kadiak mother will select her handsomest and most promising boy, and dress and rear him as a girl, teaching him only domestic duties, keeping him at women s work, associating him with women and girls, in order to render his effeminacy complete.  Arriving at the age of ten or fifteen years, he is married to some wealthy man who regards such a companion as a great acquisition.  These male concubines are called Achnutschik or Schopans” (the authorities quoted being Holmberg, Langsdorff, Billing, Choris, Lisiansky and Marchand).  The same is the case in Nutka Sound and the Aleutian Islands, where “male concubinage obtains throughout, but not to the same extent as amongst the Koniagas.”  The objects of “unnatural” affection have their beards carefully plucked out as soon as the face-hair begins to grow, and their chins are tattooed like those of the women.  In California the first missionaries found the same practice, the youths being called Joya (Bancroft, i. 415 and authorities Palon, Crespi, Boscana, Mofras, Torquemada, Duflot and Fages).  The Comanches unite incest with sodomy (i. 515).  “In New Mexico, according to Arlegui, Ribas, and other authors, male concubinage prevails to a great extent; these loathsome semblances of humanity, whom to call beastly were a slander upon beasts, dress themselves in the clothes and perform the functions of women, the use of weapons being denied them” (i. 585).  Pederasty was systematically practiced by the peoples of Cueba, Careta, and other parts of Central America.  The Caciques and some of the headmen kept harems of youths who, as soon as destined for the unclean office, were dressed as women.  They went by the name of Camayoas, and were hated and detested by the good wives (i. 733-74).  Of the Nahua nations Father Pierre de Gand (alias de Musa) writes, “Un certain nombre de pratres n’avaient point de femmes, sed eorum loco pueros quibus abutebantur.  Ce peche etait si commun dans ce pays que, jeunes ou vieux, tous etaient infectes; ils y etaient si adonnes que memes les enfants de six ens s’y livraient” (Ternaux,Campans, Voyages, Serie i.  Tom. x. p. 197).  Among the Mayas of Yucatan Las Casas declares that the great prevalence of “unnatural” lust made parents anxious to see their progeny wedded as soon as possible (Kingsborough’s Mex.