Show CHIN WHISKERS HID SCARS for capt gibbons luxury ant hirsute growth capt gibbons had a habit of wear ing chin whiskers I 1 had always thought this was due to the act that they were more becoming but I 1 learn ed the reason to be otherwise it seems that his chin and throat were scarred and these scars are thus ex on one of the ships which ho corn banded there was a mutiny ot tho crew one morning on the high seas which he promptly started to quell the sailors were too many or him however as he was unarmed and they soon had him down on the deck bound and gagged with i long knife across his mouth it was this knife that produced the wounds whose scars the captain carried the remain der of his life concealed beneath the beard while thus bound and gagged a lady passenger came to him and cut ting the bonds handed him a loaded revolver with this weapon he soon had the crew at his feet and the ring leaders were placed in irons lewis ton journal |