CRUISE OF THE "ALERT"

FOUR YEARS IN

PATAGONIAN, POLYNESIAN, AND
MASCARENE WATERS

(1878-82)

BY
R. W. COPPINGER, M.D.
(Staff-Surgeon Royal Navy, C.M.Z.S.)

With Sixteen full-page Woodcut Illustrations from Photographs by
F. North, R.N., and from Sketches by the Author

FOURTH EDITION

LONDON
SWAN SONNENSCHEIN & CO., LIM.
PATERNOSTER SQUARE
1899


First Edition, May 1884; Second Edition, January 1885;
Third Edition, May 1885.