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“Friendship” as she weathered through the raging storm. But soon the little vessel passed the haunted shores and turned her prow straight toward fair Virginia, the colony of the gallant Raleigh and the name-sake of old England’s greatest queen. From this point on, the course of the “Friendship,” unlike the course of her sister attribute, “true love,” ran very smoothly indeed, and before many more days had passed the fresh sweet-scented air, wafted from the luxurious garden of the South, could be felt on the decks of Mr. Younger’s ship.