You will doubtless be able to buy meat up there, and I hope that you will be able to obtain sufficient flour and wine to last you till the end of the winter, for transport will be very difficult when the snow is on the ground.

Firewood your soldiers will, of course, cut for themselves in the forests." The winter passed quietly.

Hector managed to obtain quarters for all his troops--a village being allotted to each company.

Before they marched off to their various quarters, Hector urged the officers to impress upon their men the advantage of behaving well to the villagers.
"Of course the presence of so many men will be of serious inconvenience to them, but they will doubtless make the best of it if they find that they are treated civilly and that their lodgers endeavour to give as little trouble as possible.

See that everything down to the smallest article is paid for, and investigate every complaint, and I will punish any offenders severely.