about two to one
`` Make for that clump of trees on rising ground , '' Edgar said ; `` then spring off the camels and fight them on foot . What arms have you , Rupert ? '' `` I have two revolvers besides this rifle . You take one of them ; we shall beat them off easily enough , they are only about two to one . '' When they reached the trees they were but a hundred yards ahead and less than a mile from the caravan , which had halted when the horsemen commenced the pursuit . They leapt from their camels . `` Do you hold their bridles , Yussuf , '' Edgar said ; `` we will beat them off , '' and steadying his rifle against the trunk of a tree he fired at the nearest horseman , who fell instantly from the saddle .