The correct answer is the following: option C. Intelligence and status is the source of Crusoe's mastery over the mutineers when they first encounter one another. When him and Friday encounter a boat containing a captain and mutineers, Crusoe is intelligent enough to use his status to offer the help the captain needs but in exchange of him and Friday being granted passage to England. Crusoe's mastery over the mutineers is that he knows things they do not, and that he is in a better position than them, and he knows how to use that context in his favor.
