This Conel conqueror was Baia-mani-coel, whose name means Father of food celestial; but baya is also the ocean.
"The American Nations, Vol. I."
C. S. Rafinesque
A place called El-Mouia-Tadjer presents a repetition of what we saw at El-baya; one of the funnels formed in the middle of the dunes contains wells from two metres to two and a half in depth, dug in a sand which pressure, and probably the presence of certain salts, have cemented so as to form true sandstone, soft indeed, but which does not yield except to the pickaxe.
"The Earth as Modified by Human Action"
George P. Marsh
2. The common weaver bird, Phoceus baya, Blyth.
"Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official"
William Sleeman