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Subs are great craft, very compace, no space to waste. Men aboard get quite used to it; some bunks are just 18" below those above. One gets quite clever at stepping through (like hurdle racer almost) little 4-foot high, 2-foot wide doors; some are couple of steps up or down, as deck levels are not same in all compartments. 

The toilet is quite a mechanical contrivance. All inlets from sea, like flush water, have two valves, air alst has two, also discharge opening. Seems very complicated at first, but very logical and simple after you get hang of it. After using, one opens two flush valves, one after other, before water flows. Then you pull lever to dump bowl into hopper below. Then open air valve, and pull change lever right way, watching pressure gauge up to 20-25 lbs. Next open outside discharge valve with (life up and down lever), open gate valve by rotating wheel, and last move charge lever the other way to discharge side; when container below closet bowl is blown clear. Last, shut off valves. 

Had nice lunch aboard in small ward room. It is just separated from rest of compartment by a light [[strikethrough]] [[?]] [[/strikethrough]] partition which, because of type of sub and need for getting out batteries, does not extend to deck underfoot and has no doors into stateroom just off side of wardroom or portion of crew's quarters just forward of it in same compartment. Just two toilets on whole sub. 

After lunch went ashore to see what possibilities of hiking inland were and after great deal of hacking at thorn bushes which formed an almost impenetrable wall just back of beach reached a little more open ground with so many lava dykes that it was rough going. Result was that without compass we made a sort of S sorties twice paralleled beach and so made very little headway inland. Constant hacking and blazing of trail, breaking over small trees; and slicing off ends of cactus pads, this made one of best blazes,