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Trim
1799-1804. Ship's cat on 'Investigator' and 'bedfellow' of Flinders. Named after Corporal Trim, a character in Laurence Sterne's 'Tristram Shandy'. Survived the circumnavigation of Australia with Flinders; survived the shipwreck on Wreck Reef with Flinders in 1803; was imprisoned on Ile de France with Flinders. The latter reported that he was 'devoured by the Catophagi of that island' and wrote a touching and humorous tribute to his cat (FLI/11).

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