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==="Sodomy is never heard of"===

Lawson, a British gentleman, surveyor and traveler, published a narrative of his
voyage to Carolina.<ref> 1709:John Lawson, History of North Carolina,
. . . edited by Frances Latham Harris (Richmond, Va.: Garrett & Massie, 1937), p. 208; GAH, p. 612 n. 8, For a biography of Lawson see Catholic Encyclopedia, vol. 8, p. 318.</ref> This earliest-known mention of native sodomy by an Englishman
denied its existence. Lawson reported that although the Indians he observed "are called Savages, yet Sodomy is never heard of amongst them." The
Indians "are so far from the Practice of that beastly and loathsome Sin that they
have no Name for it in, their Language."

{{GLA}} p 127.


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