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Reize door het Aapenland is a Dutch fictional travel report written in 1788 by either Pieter 't Hoen or 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.