01/31/1805
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"We have no information of this letter but through the channel of the party interested in the ship, nor any proof of it more authentic than that now communicated."
"On this subject any further desire which the Senate shall think proper to express shall be complied with."
"If these be within the scope of the request of the Senate, the printed copies can be sent in immediately, but if translations be necessary some considerable time will be requisite for their execution."
"We entered the Missouri May 14, 1804, and on the 1st of November took up our winter quarters near the Mandan towns, 1,609 miles above the mouth of the river."