6 A number of people think that God moved the statues, to which no scientists agree． 7 According to the islanders, the finished statues were transported by those who had magical powers． 8 The statues were built during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, when a mysterious society ruled the island． 9 The Dutch visited the island in 1722, after the society that made the statues had disappeared． 10 The Dutch went to this island, where there were only four thousand people, in search of supplies．