You were engaged in an unlawful enterprise, and in resisting his majesty's officers.

You will get some months in prison anyhow, if you go back.

You had better stay on board, and let me make men of you." The countrymen, however, preferred a prison to a man o' war.
James Walsham had been turning over the matter in his mind.

He had certainly taken no part in the fray, but that would be difficult to prove, and he could not account for his presence except by acknowledging that he was there to warn them.

It would certainly be a case of imprisonment.