"The most likely anchoring place we had seen was on the West side of the isle     miles to the northward of the South point before a small sandy beach where we found 40 and 30 fathoms one mile from the Shore, Bottom dark sand, here a Canoe conducted by two Men came off and brought us a Bunch of Plantans and then returned a shore."

"...which they sent into the Ship by a rope..."

"Some Hours before we Anchor'd a couple of the Natives came off and brought us a Bunch of ripe Plantins (a most grateful Present) then return'd again to the shore seemingly exceedingly pleas'd and happy with a couple of Medals which they got in return." 

"We landed at the sandy beach [14th March, the day after the above] where about 100 of the Natives were collected who gave us no disturbance at landing, on the contrary hardly one had so much as a stick in their hands. After distributing among them some Medals and other trifles, they brought us sweet Potatoes, Plantains and some Sugar cane which they exchanged for Nails &c; after having found a small Spring or rather Well made by the Natives, of very brackish Water, I returned on board and anchored the Ship in 32 f^m Water, the bottom a fine dark sand, something more than a mile from the Shore."

"At ½ past 10 we [Pickersgill writes] got to the Eastern Sea where we found a row of Stone Images whose names we got from the Natives and by what I could understand from them, they were errected to the memory of their chiefs; for they had all different Names and they allways call'd them Areekes which I understood to be King or chief; and they did not seem to pay that respect to them, that I should think they would to a Deity; they bore the same figure as the rest and wheather they are Sement or Stones I'm sure I cannot tell only from their appearance they seem'd to be the latter."

"We had many of the Natives went with us a cross the Isthmus [from Hanga Roa bay to the east coast] and one man constantly kept a head of us carrying a white flag who seem'd to direct the crowd."

"From this place [at the eastern sea-border] we traveled about 3 miles further a long shore, the man still carrying his flag and the Natives flocking round us to about 150 in Number; this part of the Country was very barren, hardly a house or Plantation to be seen and the rocks seem'd to contain Iron ore [wrong guess]; here the Path struck up a little from the Sea side and we pass'd some Plantations where the people behaved exceedingly civil, bring us dress'd Potatoes and plenty of Sug^r Cane but we could get no water but what was brackish.

After passing this valley we saw a number of men collected upon a hill some distance from us and some with spears but on the people which were with us calling to them they dispers'd except a few amongst which was a man seemingly of some note, he was a stout made man with a fine open countenance, his face painted, his body tatowed and some thing whiter than the rest and he wore a better ah-hou, with both hands clinch'd lifting them over his head, opening them wide and leting them fall gradually down to his sides, they told us he was the arekee of the Island which they call'd Wy-hu, this they seem'd all to agree in."

(Cook's 2nd Voyage)