petahayas

Updated: May 19, 2025

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.

Mayne Reid - The White Chief: A Legend of Northern Mexico