[465] _Kam. and Kurn._, pp. 209, 210, and _Nat. Tr._, p. 774. [466] _Idem_, _Nat. Tr._, pp. 774, 775. Compare _Kam. and Kurn._, p. 209. [467] _Kam. and Kurn._, p. 210. [468] _Nat. Tr._, p. 775. Amongst the Gournditsh-Mara Tribe (Lake Condah, West Victoria) "each family camped by itself." During the meals "each wife was ... obliged to sit beside her own husband," and not "near any other man unless her husband sat between them."[469] It is a statement pointing to isolation of females from sex jealousy. We shall meet in the future with a few statements referring to the way in which meals are taken. [469] Rev. Stähle in _Kam. and Kurn._, pp. 277, 278. Customs pointing to the isolation of families, on the ground of sex jealousy are referred to by Curr.[470] "A woman never sat in a mia-mia (hut) in which there was a man, save her husband; she never conversed nor exchanged words with any man except in the absence of her husband and in reply to some necessary question," and only from a distance. Women had "no communication with persons of the opposite sex except little boys." From the paternal hut, where they lived, "their brothers of eight or ten years of age were excluded at night." And again, "among the Bangerang and other tribes I have known, each married couple had their own mia-mia, or hut."[471] These statements are quite clear. They coincide with the majority of our information. What is important and will interest us further in detail is the fact that boys at the age of about ten were excluded from the paternal hut. Females were given away about the same age, so that we may say that only small children remained with their parents. "The bachelors had one (hut) in common."[472] [470] _Recollections_, p. 250, refers to the Bangerang tribe. Compare also _ibid._, p. 256 and _A.R._, i. pp. 65, 98, 100. [471] _Recollections_, p. 259. [472] Compare _A.R._, i. pp. 109, 110. Describing the laying of a camp Curr says-- "As they arrived they formed their camps, each family having a fire of its own some half-dozen yards from its neighbour's."[473] [473] _Recollections_, p. 133.