Then Baron Kleist explained, as best he could, and Bartlett was fascinated by what he learned: “This was not really a woman but a man who had, so to speak, turned himself into a woman. It was, it seemed, a custom among these Siberians to do this and a man who thus transformed himself acted like a woman, dressed like a woman, talked like a woman and was looked upon by the other Chukchi as a woman.”*
