six to one before
`` I would rather tote the canoe on my back all the way down to Mexico , than have to try and make my way over the bad lands to the hills . Besides , when we get a bit farther we shall be in the Navahoe country , and the Utes ai n't a sarcumstance to them . The Ute ai n't much of a fighter anyway . He will kill white men he finds up in his hills , 'cause he do n't want white men there , but he has to be five or six to one before he will attack him . The Navahoe kills the white man 'cause he is a white man , and 'cause he likes killing . He is a fighter , and do n't you forget it . If it had been Navahoes instead of Utes that had caught us up in the hills , you may bet your bottom dollar our scalps would be drying in their lodges now . ''