They found themselves standing before the man who must be the ruler of the ship. He was everything they had heard the foreign devils to be: tall, hairy-faced, with a nose like an albatross's beak. He stood straight as a ship's mast, wearing a stiff, deep blue jacket. In the brief moment that Manjiro dared to look at this ruler, he saw that the man gazed down at them with one dark eye, while squeezing the other shut. —Heart of a Samurai, Margi Preus Which text evidence supports the central idea that Manjiro had a lot of courage? Manjiro looked at the ruler. Manjiro stood before the ruler. Manjiro noticed the ruler's jacket.