Elsewhere, Westermarck says: “There is no indication that the North American aborigines attached any opprobrium to men who had intercourse with those members of their own sex who had assumed the dress and habits of women. In Kadiak such a companion was, on the contrary, regarded as a great acquisition; and the effeminate men, far from being despised were held in repute by the people, most of them being wizards.” In the South Sea Islands, in 1796-98, Captain James Wilson found men there who were dressed like women and enjoyed certain honors. He expressed surprise that “even their women do not despise these fellows, but form friendships with them.” Another traveler in these islands, William Ellis, a missionary, reported that the natives not only enjoyed the sanction of the priests, but even became the direct examples of their divinities. China and Japan, as well as Malaysia, offer many examples of Buddhist priests, or _Bonzes_, who have boys attached to the service of the temples. It is the duty of each priest to educate a novice to follow him in the ceremonies, and it is known that the relations between the two are often intimate physically. As long ago as 1549, Francis Xavier, then traveling in Japan, refers to this. He states that the _Bonzes_ admitted the nature of their relations with the youths, but asserted it was no sin. They said, however, that intercourse with women was for them a deadly sin, and even punishable with death. The homosexual relation, on the other hand, was not only harmless, but even commendable. It appears that in all the Buddhist sects in Japan, except the _Shinto_, celibacy is enforced upon priests, but homosexual relations are not discouraged. In Hindu mythology, _Brahm_ is often represented as two-sexed. Originally he was the sole Being. But, “delighting not to be alone he wished for the existence of another, and at once he became such, as male and female embraced (united). He caused this his one self to fall in twain.” A Russian traveler by the name of Dawydow writing about 1800, reported that among the Konyagas of Alaska, in the island of Kadiak, there were here men with tatooed chins, who work only as women, who live with the womankind, and like the latter, have husbands, and not infrequently even two. These inverts were called _Achnutschiks_. They were held in the highest regard in the community, and were generally considered wizards. The native who possessed an _Achnutschik_, instead of a female wife, was envied. When the parents regarded their son as effeminate in appearance or bearing they often dedicated him in early childhood to the vocation of an _Achnutschik_. In case parents were disappointed with a son when a daughter was desired, they sometimes made their new-born son an _Achnutschik_.