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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 sortie twice paralled beach and so made very little head way inland Constant hacking & blazing of trail breaking over small trees; and slicing off ends of cactus [[pads?]], this made one of best blazes, visible a long way off.  Capt. Lynch suggested paper.  Tablet paper was little difficult to anchor (or
James he used toilet paper, which though it hung well from trees was a little flimsy & in heavy rain tended to come down. This does make one think tha roll of right kind of paper would make excellent^[[& durable]] trail marker.))

After a couple of hours wandering around discovered that they other shore party Lynch and Dr. climing over Sand dune to left (or eastward of best landing beach had found easier access to beach [[strikethrough]]or [[Cp?]][[/strikethrough