Australian aborigines（土著居民）
Some aborigines live in the desert of Western Australia. They gather wild plants and hunt wild animals. Their desert environment averages less than eight inches of rain per year. And the temperature in summer may rise to 48℃. The few permanent（永久的）water holes are separated by hundreds of square miles of sand and rock.
On a typical day, the aborigines get up just before sunrise. The people breakfast on water and food left over from the night before. Children are sent to fetch water. In the cool of the early morning, the adults talk and make plans for the day. Where should they go for food—to places they have been to recently, or to new places? The women decide which plants they want to collect, and where those plants are most likely to be found. Then they take up their sticks and set out with large wooden bowls of drinking water on their heads. Their children ride on their hips（胯）or walk alongside. Meanwhile, the men may have decided to hunt animals. They go to a stream where they will wait to get any animal that may come along. They lie patiently behind a screen of bush they have set up, hoping for a chance to throw a spear（矛）at the animal. If they miss, the animal will run away. So they can only throw once.
By soon, the men and women are back at camp. The women are usually with their wooden bowls each filled with fruits or other plant foods; the men are often with only some small animals such as rabbits. Since the men's food-getting is less certain of success than the women's, most of the aborigines' diet is plant food.
When setting out to work, the aborigine women leave their children at home.