The greatest relief that we could find during twenty-nine days was the stalks of purselin, boiled in water, with now and then a Pompion, or gourd, which we found in the garden of the old Indian, who, on this our second arrival, fled with his three sons, and kept himself continually aloft on the mountains.
"A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. VIII."
Robert Kerr
Utterly unconvinced, yet politely obedient, the blond giant strode off across the road, picked up the great stone as though it were a Pompion, turned it over, uttered an exclamation, and bore it back to us.
"The Reckoning"
Robert W. Chambers
Pompions they called them in "the times wherein old Pompion was a saint."
"Customs and Fashions in Old New England"
Alice Morse Earle