In 1770, during a voyage of exploration to New Zealand, Joseph Banks wrote of a sailor who had complained that Māori practised homosexuality. He had paid a family to have sex with a young woman. However, they sent a male rather than a female to him. Banks's interpretation was that it was a way to trick him rather than an example of homosexuality.
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