... building materials along with ample living space, and the necessities that would make life easy. They settled, flourished and reproduced. The first visit by Europeans to the island was by the Dutch Admiral Roggeveen, on board the Arena, on Easter Sunday, 1722. What he found was a community of nearly 3,000 people that were living in an elementary state, in caves or reed huts. The inhabitants engaged in almost ceaseless fighting and had turned to cannibalism in an attempt to find supplements for the few food supplies that were available to them on the island. The following stop on the Island was by the Spanish around 1770, they found the island to be minimally inhabited and deprived of resources. In the late 1700's Easter Island sustained a few more brief visits. "An American ship stayed long enough to carry off twenty-two inhabitants to work as slaves killing seals on ...

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