361.
[201] In some parts of the world the impulse persists into adult life. Sir
S. Baker (_Ismailia_, p. 472) mentions licking the eyes as a sign of
affection.
[202] _Book of Common Prayer in Manx Gaelic_, edited by A.W. Moore and J.
Rhys, 1895.
[203] L. Hearn, _Out of the East_, 1895, p. 103.
[204] See, e.g., A.B. Ellis, _Tshi-speaking Peoples_, p. 288. Among the
Swahili the kiss is practiced, but exclusively between married people and
with very young children. Velten believes they learned it from the Arabs.
[205] Hyades and Deniker, _Mission Scientifique du Cap Horn_, vol. vii, p.
245.
[206] W. Roth, _Ethnological Notes Among the Queensland Aborigines_, p.
184.
[207] _Zeitschrift fuer Ethnologie_, 1900, ht. 5, p. 200.
[208] E.g., the _Kama Sutra_ of Vatsyayana, Bk. III, Chapter I.
[209] Hosea, Chapter xiii, v. 2; I Kings, Chapter xix, v. 18.
[210] Wellhausen, _Reste Arabischen Heidentums_, p. 109.
[211] The Romans recognized at least three kinds of kiss: the _osculum_,
for friendship, given on the face; the _basium_, for affection, given on
the lips; the _suavium_, given between the lips, reserved for lovers.
[212] In other parts of the world it would appear that the kiss sometimes
has a sacred or ritual character.
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