Moreover, the men shout words of encouragement to the subaltern, for it is
						impossible for each subaltern to make his voice travel along the whole of
						his section to the far end. When two or
							more sections are abreast (c. xi. 4), the men take up and repeat the
							exhortations of the subaltern posted at the end of the line, and pass
							them along to the next subaltern, and so on. These detached notes are
							not clearly expressed. The colonel is responsible for seeing that
						all is done properly. When the time for encamping seems to have
						arrived, the decision rests with the King, who also indicates the proper
						place. On the other hand the dispatch of embassies whether to friends or
						enemies is not the King’s affair. All who have any business to transact deal
						in the first instance with the King.