Stavanger Bay Why learn algebra? Finding X is only useful, if you are a pirate

Salt. Seaweeds. Fat. Fur. Wet. Sand. Sea-shells. Fish. And a lot of hints, tinges, flavors, stenches, whiffs, emanances, reeks and effluviums (now that is one word Hexe did not know, though it is very likely that she hadn't got the slightest idea of other synonyms to the word "smell" either) that I cannot either name or place anywhere among the known terms. 

And even with this wealth of information her mind had no idea, what it had been once or what it had become now. Therefore she shot an annoyed glance over to the she-wolf, who had drawn nearer again. This was a good moment as ever to impress the dappled wolf and the task was simple - prove that you have brains and use them!