Captain Winters might give orders to the sailors, but Captain Winters took orders from Harley Kennan.

Jerry knew this as indubitably as he acted upon it, although all the while it never entered his head as an item of conscious knowledge.
And, as he had been accustomed, all his life, as with Mister Haggin, Skipper, and even with Bashti and the chief devil devil doctor of Somo, he attached himself to the high gods themselves, and from the gods under them received deference accordingly.

As Skipper, on the _Arangi_, and Bashti in Somo, had promulgated taboos, so the man and the woman on the _Ariel_ protected Jerry with taboos.

From Sano, the Japanese steward, and from him alone, did Jerry receive food.

Not from any sailor in whaleboat or launch could he accept, or would he be offered, a bit of biscuit or an invitation to go ashore for a run.