Read the excerpt below and answer the question.
So some of the cheefe of the company, perceiveing the mariners to faare the suffisiencie of the shipe, as appeared
by their mutterings, they entred into serious consulltation with the mr and other officers of the ship, to consider in
time of the danger; and rather to returne then to cast them selves into a desperate and inevitable perill.
How would the meaning of the excerpt change if the word cheefe was replaced with the word manager?
It would change the level of his authority.
It would change the tone of the sailors' mutterings.
It would change the feeling of danger.
It would change the conduct of the meeting.

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