Roth says about the tribes of North-West Central Queensland: "The husband sleeps in the same gundi as his wives."[498] The way of taking meals is not quite uniform among all tribes observed by this writer. At Cape Bedford "members of one family take their meals together, except the single young men (above puberty), who dine apart." In another tribe (Tully River) "each family dines by itself." On the contrary, "on the Bloomfield River men, boys and girls (up to four or five years of age) dine together; all the other females ... mess apart."[499] Among the natives of Koombana Bay, "in the family, the man, women and children dined together."[500] There are three kinds of huts among the North Queensland tribes: the simple shelter of boughs; a hut built somewhat more carefully against rain; and a hut built for protection against cold, this hut, being of course, the most elaborate.[501] From the description of these huts we may infer that they were occupied each by one family only. [498] _Eth. Stud._, p. 182, § 327. [499] Bull. iii. p. 7. [500] _Proc. R.S.Q._, p. 48. [501] _Eth. Stud._, §§ 159, 160, 161, pp. 105-107. The isolation of families caused by the jealousy of the husband is plainly stated by Grey: "He cannot, from the roving nature of their mode of life, surround his wives with the walls of a seraglio, but custom and etiquette have drawn about them barriers nearly as impassable. When a certain number of families are collected together, they encamp at a common spot, and each family has a separate hut or perhaps two. At these huts sleep the father of the family, his wives, the female children who have not yet joined their husbands, very young boys[502] and occasionally female relatives; but no males over ten years of age may sleep in family huts. They have got their own separate encampment."[503] If any strangers are present with their wives, they sleep in their own huts, placed amongst the married people. If they are unmarried or without wives "they sleep at the fire of the young men."[504] "Under no circumstances is a strange native allowed to approach the fire of a married man."[505] Their huts being so scattered over a rather large area, their conversation is held by means of a loud chant.[506] It must be remembered that Grey asserts in several places the great and vigilant jealousy of the natives.[507] [502] _Loc. cit._, ii. p. 252. [503] _Ibid._ [504] _Ibid._ [505] _Loc. cit._, pp. 252, 253. [506] _Loc. cit._, p. 253. [507] _Loc. cit._, pp. 242, 253, 255.