Forty-eight years ago, King wrote part of his eulogy in Saunders' wooden boat deep in the Bimini mangroves, a winding swamp of thick bushes and trees where 100 species of fish and marine life fill the murky waters.
Tradescant the Elder, especially, devoted much of his life to bringing new species of plants and trees to England, from all over the known world, and to cultivating new varieties from existing species.