John Turnbull was an English seaman who was most noted for his 1800–1805 voyage to the South Pacific on behalf of the

East India Company The East India Company (EIC) was an English, and later British, joint-stock company founded in 1600 and dissolved in 1874. It was formed to trade in the Indian Ocean region, initially with the East Indies (the Indian subcontinent and Southea ...

. During this voyage, an account of which being published in 1810, he made observations in Tahiti, Hawaii, and Australia, that have become important texts to the indigenous and settler histories of those places. Included in these observations were his comments on the mahoo or mahu transgender people of Tahiti, which were

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, typically of their time, but part of the LGBT history of the Pacific Islands.A Voyage Round the World in the Years 1800, 1801, 1802, 1803, and 1804. American publication 1810. P.308-309.
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