Amongst the Mount Gambier tribes (West Victoria) the females have to construct the lodge, to collect firewood, and to make the fire.[862] They always carry the fire-stick when travelling.[863] They fetch water and collect all vegetable food, roots, and mushrooms, with their digging-stick.[864] The men's task is hunting; they do it generally in company.[865] Men make arms and prepare skins; women, objects of use and adornment.[866] [862] Stanbridge, _loc. cit._, p. 290. [863] _Ibid._, p. 291. [864] _Ibid._ [865] _Ibid._, p. 293. [866] _Ibid._, p. 295. We read in Angas that carrying all the things, digging of roots, and making the huts is woman's work.[867] [867] _Loc. cit._, pp. 82, 84, 87. Eyre says that the women had to dress the huts.[868] [868] _Loc. cit._, ii. p. 302. We read in Br. Smyth that women had to carry all the "worldly goods" of their husbands, even part of their arms.[869] [869] _Loc. cit._, p. 85. This is a quotation on the authority of an observer (Jardine). The men hunt and women collect food during their march according to Protector Thomas. There exists a customary communism among them.[870] [870] Howitt, _Nat. Tr._, p. 767. Mitchell says that because of their great skill in manufacturing all the things of daily use as "nets, cloaks, mussel-fishing, rooting, etc.; and their patient submission to labour, always carrying bags containing the whole property of the family while they follow their masters, the great value of a gin to one of these lazy fellows may be easily imagined."[871] They are, therefore, the chief objects of all their fights. [871] Quoted by Br. Smyth, i. p. 85. Meyer states about the Encounter Bay tribes that the man regarded his wife as a slave and let her do all the hard work, employing her in all ways to his advantage.[872] He even prostituted her for objects of use.[873] But he states also the typical division of labour: "the men employ themselves ... either in fishing or hunting emus, opossums, kangaroos, etc., while the women and children search for roots and plants." It is also the women's task to arrange the encampments.[874] [872] _Loc. cit._, p. 191. [873] This may be the influence of culture, as Europeans are mentioned in connection therewith. [874] pp. 191, 192. In the Port Lincoln tribes men provided animal and women vegetable food.[875] [875] Schürmann, _loc. cit._, p. 221. We read in another author, about the same tribes, that women have to collect vegetable food, while the men are hunting.[876] There is also some kind of division of consumption; men eat male, women female animals, and children the small ones.[877] [876] Chas. Wilhelmi, pp. 174, 175, 177. [877] _Ibid._, p. 176. Among the Wiradjuri (New South Wales): "The wife always looks after the camping arrangements."[878]