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Quart
1948
Journal
82
May 24 Las Cuevas, 23° 34' N, 109° 39' W, Baja California
a small stream of water that is pumped from
the well in the arroyo bottom into an irrigation
ditch that runs along its east wall in a
northerly direction.
May 25 El Carrizalito, 1400 ft, 5 mi N Santiago, Baja California
Arrived here yesterday afternoon after about
a half hour drive from Las Cuevas. This camp
is about two miles west of the main road going
from Buena Vista to Santiago. The road to Las
Cuevas turns off the main road several miles N.W.
of here. From here we can look eastward and
see the town of Las Cuevas and beyond that
to the sea.
We are camped in the unfinished building of
a tuberculosis sanitarium, that was started several
years ago and then apparently abandoned. There
is a fine spring here in the hill back of us
which supports two clumps of palm trees up
on the hill. To the eastward the Arroyo de
Santiago runs northward to the sea. We are
camped beneath the hills delineating the west
side of the valley and at a considerable altitude
higher than the valley floor.
The hills in back of us are composed
of very large granite boulders and are very
steep. Palo blanco, Palo verde, Wild fig, Pitayas
dulce and numerous shrubs are crowded