De Vaca's "I saw a devilish thing", 1528-36

Spanish explorer Cabeza de Vaca's report of his five-year captivity among the Indian's of Florida, from 1528 to 1533 states:

During the time that I was thus among these people I saw a devilish thing, and it is that I saw one man married to another, and these are impotent, effeminate men [amariooodos] and they go about dressed as women, and do women's tasks, and shoot with a bow, and carry great burdens, ... and they are huskier than the other men, arid taller....2

Jonathan Ned Katz, Gay American History: Lesbians and Gay Men in the U.S.A. (NY: Crowell, 1976)