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40 distinguished, not only by their dress, but by the more cheerful countenances that they  wore: ship’s captains and rolling-gaited sailors redolent of tar and, he feared, rum as  well; Negroes and an occasional Indian;  dark men who wore gold rings in their ears. But in the end he turned down toward the shore and so into Ship Street and saw the  swinging sign of the King’s Head Tavern  ahead and was presently beating a gay tattoo  on the portal of Master William Elkins, Merchant.