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The Chinese were accustomed to pay divine honors to the compass by burning little odoriferous balls, and offering meats and sacrifices to it. They threw gilded paper punctually twice a day into the sea to attract its favor and wil it to be propitious. See Gardner, Faiths of the World, s.v.