A navigator’s feline biographySourced
The explorer also wrote about his cat
Trim was born aboard ship in 1799 and accompanied Matthew Flinders on voyages mapping Australia’s coast in 1801–1803. While detained in Mauritius, Flinders wrote a tribute to the cat; a biography dated 1809 survives.
The explorer left a record of affection as well as navigation.
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