Charles Wilkes writes, that jealousy is very strongly developed among the New South Wales blacks. From it originate occasional quarrels, and the women suffer especially from jealousy and suspicions. There are also regulated fights and ordeals in order to settle quarrels and enmities ensuing from sexual matters.[253] [253] _Loc. cit._ (smaller edition), i., p. 226. Tench mentions the sexual licence of unmarried girls among the Port Jackson tribes.[254] [254] _Loc. cit._, p. 199. We read about the natives of Botany Bay, that the men were very jealous.[255] [255] Phillip, pp. 34, 35. Turnbull says, that quarrels arise usually from jealousy in sexual matters. The affair usually becomes more general and involves the whole tribe.[256] [256] _Loc. cit._, pp. 90, 99. Tribes of New South Wales, probably from the neighbourhood of Sydney. Amongst the Geawe Gal there were probably occasions on which "promiscuous intercourse (subject to the class rules) took place."[257] [257] Rusden, _loc. cit._, p. 281. Amongst the Kamilaroi "the punishment for adultery was, that when a woman was _taramu_, that is, shifty, wanton, adulterous, the husband complained to his kindred, who carried the matter before the headman, and if the charge was found to be true, her punishment was to be taken without the camp and to be handed over to all comers for that night, and her cries were not heeded."[258] Women were lent to friends, visitors, but with their own consent.[259] This statement confirms again the majority of those relating to the South-east tribes. The husband did not tolerate any trespass in these matters; and the community intervened. On the other hand, he had (with her consent) the right to dispose of her. [258] C. E. Doyle in Howitt's _Nat. Tr._, pp. 207, 208. [259] _Ibid._ Amongst the Euahlayi: "There are two codes of morals, one for men and one for women. Old Testament morality for men, New Testament for women."[260] This applies, probably, chiefly to sexual matters, for we read in another place,[261] "Unchaste men were punished terribly.... The death penalty for wantonness was enforced." Also a girl "found guilty of frailty" is severely punished by her relatives.[262] An "absolute wanton" is ignominiously treated, the result being almost inevitably death.[263] This statement is incomplete, as we are not told if adultery and wantonness are punished only when they are perpetrated without knowledge of the husband; in other words, we are not informed if the widespread custom of wife-lending was absent or not among the Euahlayi. [260] Mrs. Parker, p. 58. [261] _Ibid._, p. 59. [262] _Ibid._, p. 60. [263] _Ibid._