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Captain Laudonniere's account of four French expeditions into Florida during the years 1562-67 observes:
There are in all this country many hermaphrodites, which take all the greatest paine and beare the victuals when they goe to warre. [1]
References
Jonathan Ned Katz, Gay American History: Lesbians and Gay Men in the U.S.A. (NY: Crowell, 1976) pg. 285.
- ↑ Rene Goulaine de Laudonniere, A Notable Historie Containing Faure Voyages Made by Certayne French C~Ptaynes unto Florida. . . . trans. Richard Hakluyt (London: Thomas Dawson, 1587), p. 3 {i.e., 5).
