Reize door het Aapenland

Reize door het Aapenland is a Dutch fictional travel report written in 1788 by either Pieter 't Hoen or Gerrit Paape [nl [http://www.dbnl.org/auteurs/auteur.php?id=paap004 DBNL page] ] [nl [http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerrit_Paape Wikipedia article on Gerrit Paape] ] under the pseudonym J.A. Schasz.

Plot

The protagonist, J.A. Schasz, strands on an island inhabited by monkeys, each one numbered by importance. The monkeys mistakenly think that Schasz is a returned primate citizen who has managed to achieve the status of human being. Hereafter, a large portion of the monkeys want to look more like humans, by means of amputating their tails.

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