The Monikins is an 1835 novel, written by James Fenimore Cooper.
[1] The critic Christina Starobin compares the novel's plot to Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels.
[1] The novel is a satire, narrated by the main character, the English Sir John Goldencalf.
Goldencalf and the American captain Noah Poke travel on a series of humorous adventures to an Antarctic archipelago inhabited by a race of civilized monkeys.
[2] A contemporary critic of the novel in The Knickerbocker described it with great disappointment.