sandias

His eyes beheld only one object -- for there stood a beautiful girl whose lips rendered paler the carnation red of the granadillas, and the hue of whose cheeks eclipsed the rosy tint of the _sandias_, scattered profusely over the tables.

Wood Rangers The Trappers of Sonora Mayne Reid 1850

Of these dark aborigines -- the "peons" of the mission and the mines -- there are hundreds stalking about, while their wives and daughters sit squatted upon the ground in rear of their _petates_; upon which are piled the fruits of the soil -- the _tunas, petahayas_, plums, apricots, grapes, _sandias_, and other species of melons, with roasted nuts of the pinon-tree, the produce of the neighbouring mountains.

The White Chief A Legend of Northern Mexico Mayne Reid 1850