CRUISE OF THE "ALERT 



FOUR YEARS IN 



PAT AGON I AN, POLYNESIAN, AND 

 MASCARENE WA TERS. 



(i878-82.) 



BY 



R. W. C O P P I N G E R, M.D. 



(STAFF-SURGEON ROYAL NAVY, C.M.Z.S.) 



ll^ith Sixteen fzill-page Woodcut Illustrations from Photographs by 

 F. North, R.N., and from Sketches by the Author. 



SECOND EDITION. 



LONDON : 



W. SWAN-SONNENSCHEIN AND CO., 



PATERNOSTER SQUARE. 

 1884. 





