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. B

The military traveller whom professional destiny throws amongst the different quarters of the globe may be justly compared to the giddy and fortuitous stranger who visits an extensive museum, where he admires every thing, hut examines into nothing.

Assuming 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 looking at the scanty gatherings he has to offer from them But such as they are, he has spread them out to he winnowed by the winds, in the hope that a few scattered seeds may some- where take root, and vegetate for the benefit of others.

Alternately a conqueror and a captive upon take shores of La Plata, it was his lot to derive a privilege from misfortune, which had been denied for ages to the most favoured foreigner By this inverted cause of incidents, he was not only allowed, but compelled to penetrate many hundred miles within its interior, to have a glance at its productions, and to associate with its natives.

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