Note 53 — Chapter XII · THE LITTORINE PROVINCES. SANTA FÉ—ENTRE RIOS—CORRIENTES—THE OLD JESUIT MISSIONS—PARAGUAY UNDER DR. FRANCIA.
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The same saints are invoked to keep down the rats—another plague of these countries—attracted, no doubt, by the smell of beef everywhere, as they are in the abattoirs of Paris. The eleven thousand Virgins were the guardian angels against the locusts.