three in the afternoon
After breakfast the women of the tribe would go out hunting roots and snaring small game for the afternoon meal , while the men went off on their war and hunting expeditions , or amused themselves with feats of arms . The children were generally left to their own devices in the camp , and the principal amusement of the boys appeared to be the hurling of reed spears at one another . The women brought home the roots -LRB- which they dug up with yam sticks , generally about four feet long -RRB- in nets made out of the stringy parts of the grass tree ; stringy bark , or strong pliable reeds , slung on their all-enduring backs . They generally returned heavily laden between two and three in the afternoon . I always knew the time pretty accurately by the sun , but I lost count of the days . The months , however , I always reckoned by the moon , and for each year I made a notch on the inside of my bow . My own food was usually wrapped in palm leaves before being placed in the sand oven .