“Essentially an attractive personality, with strong likes and dislikes, [Scott] excelled in making his followers his friends by a few words of sympathy or praise: I have never known anybody, man or woman, who could be so attractive when he chose.”
These watercolours are part of the personal sea journal writing and painted by , Susan Veeder (1816-1897). She sailed from September 1848 to March 1853 with her husband, Captain Charles A. Veeder, on a whaling voyage aboard the ship Nauticon.
Susan and her family ( her three children, her unborn and her husband) sailed around Cape Horn to ports in Chile and thence to Oahu, Tahiti, and as far north as the Fox Islands in the Arctic.
She wrote about her experiences aboard, of having a baby in Talcahuano, and how she lost it 14 months later in Tahiti. How they stuck in the ice for 13 days in the Arctic, and the sighting of a polar bear.
These journey was her only one and she never returned to sea again. She spent the rest of her life ashore.
