about five to one
`` Why should we stay here and wait for them ? '' exclaimed one of the younger captains at length-some of these captains were mere boys . `` Why not go out , meet them , and beat them ? '' `` They outnumber us about five to one , '' said Henry . `` Brant , if he is still with them , though he may have gone to some other place from Tioga Point , is a great captain . So is Timmendiquas , the Wyandot , and they say that the Tory leader is energetic and capable . '' `` It is all true ! ''