Excerpt from Gleanings and Remarks: Collected During Many Months of Residence at Buenos Ayres, and Within the Upper Country: With a Prefatory Account of the Expedition From England, Until the Surrender of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope, Under the Joint Command of Sir D. Baird, G. C. B. K. C. And Sir Home Popham, K. C. BAssuming this simile to himself the Author of the following Narrative has aptly preferred the humble title of a Gleaner, to a higher name, upon taking a review of the luxuriant fields through which he has wandered, and when loo/sing at the scanty gatherings he has to ofier from them. But such as they are, he has spread them out to be winnowed by the winds, in the hope that a few scattered seeds may some where ta/ee root, and vegetate for the benefit of others.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.