In this island of Cozumel the Spaniards found many hives of excellent honey; they found likewise considerable quantities of batatas, and swine having navels on their backs, by which articles of food they were much refreshed.

Their practice consists in adoring their navel as they see it reflected in the Talmud, or the Old and New Testaments.

The god of fire is the organ that generated the (ocean); the earth is thy body; Vishnu deposited the seed that caused thy being and thou art the navel of nectar."

This habit resembles on one hand that of rubbing noses, so general in Polynesiaand on the other, the custom of pinching the navel and repeating the name for that part, practised by the islanders of Torres Strait.

I told her that the only object of a bandage was to protect the navel, for a few days, until it was healed, and for that purpose all that was necessary was a piece of linen four inches square, well oiled, folded four times double, with a hole in the center, laid over it.