Similar deformations exist in the Celebes, New Britain, etc.
"The Former Philippines thru Foreign Eyes"
Tomás de Comyn Fedor Jagor Rudolf Ludwig Carl Virchow Charles Wilkes
Had you been there, it is my belief that nature would have triumphed even in you; and as the boat drew but a little nearer, and you beheld the stairs crowded with abominable deformations of our common manhood, and saw yourself landing in the midst of such a population as only now and then surrounds us in the horror of a nightmare-what a haggard eye you would have rolled over your reluctant shoulder towards the house on Beretania Street!
"Father Damien an Open Letter to the Reverend Dr. Hyde of Honolulu"
Robert Louis Stevenson
He realises disproportions and deformations which must have existed in nature as mere inclinations, but which have not succeeded in coming to a head, being held in check by a higher force.
"Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic"
Henri Bergson