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Rh had taken a lively interest in the issue of this journey, and looked forward with impatience to the information it would furnish. The anxieties, too, for the safety of the corps had been kept in a state of excitement by lugubrious rumors circulated from time to time on uncertain authorities, and contradicted by letters and other direct information from the time they left Mandan towns, on their ascent up the river in April of the preceding year, 1805, until their actual return to St. Louis.