Show CHIN WHISKERS HID SCARS lEx explanation for capt gibbons luxuriant hirsute growth capt gibbons bad a habit of wear tee chin whiskers I 1 had bad always thought this ws was duo to the fact that they were more becoming but I 1 learned the reason real to be otherwise it seems that his chin and throat threat were scarred and these sears scars fire arc thus explained pla ined on one of the ships which ho he commanded there was a mutiny of the crew otis one morning on the tha high seas which he be promptly started to quell tho the sailors were too many for or him however as he wag ras unarmed and they soon had bad him down on the deck bound and gagged with a long ions knife across his mouth it was this knife that produced the wounds whose scars the captain carried the remainder of his life concealed beneath the beard while thus bound and gassed gagged a lady passenger came to him and cutting the bonds handed him a loaded revolver with this his weapon he be soon had the crew at his bis feet and the rin ring leaders were placed in irons lewiston journal |