XI BEZOAR STONES 287 
the town of Middelburg in Holland; it was purchased and _pre- 
sented to the Emperor of Germany. Gesner gives a curious figure 
of it, representing the animal as a comparatively colossal beast 
submitting itself to the guidance of a dwarfish man. The habit of 
“spitting” of the Lama is well known. Augustin de Zarate and 
Buffon speak of the Lama as having no protection save this habit, 
which is more than a mere ejection of saliva: the contents of the 
Fie. 149.—Lama. Lama huanacos x 4's. 
stomach are forcibly shot at the object of its annoyance. It can 
also kick and bite. In the intestines (as in those of some other 
mammals) are found Bezoar stones, or Bezards as they are variously 
spelt. These were once valued in medicine, and even so lately as 
1847 were, according to Gay, the historian of Chih, in vogue ; 
these concretions, comparable to the ambergris of the Whales, were 
supposed to be an antidote to poison. 
Extinct Camels.—The earliest cameloid type is the genus 
Protylopus, of which we are acquainted with an imperfect skull 
1 See Wortman, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. x. 1898, p. 93. 
