Word: baja
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...Vega Baja...
...Lower California, in the desolate volcanic waste near Punta Baja, Edward H. Davis of the Museum of the American Indian (Manhattan), found vast caverns decorated with mural paintings. In one cave the ceiling bristled with arrows shot into it at least 500 years ago. Carved stone vessels and long-walled lanes through the lava floes indicated high culture among the Cochimi, Guaycuru and Pericue Indians whom Spanish travelers reported finding on that lonely coast in the 16th Century. Ethnologist Davis judged that these tribes were gigantic in stature...
...Exproso" from Campoamor's "Pequenos Poemas" this evening at 8 o'clock in the Assembly Room of the Union. The reading is under the auspices of the Sociedad Espanola and is open to the University. Mr. Wallace Gillpatrick, of the Mexican Herald, whose stage version of Guimera's "Tierra Baja" was given by Mrs. Fiske in New York last winter under the title "Marta of the Lowlands," will render several Spanish and Mexican songs with guitar accompaniment...