“Hagoth,” Friend, Jan. 1995, 27
Hagoth
![Many Nephites left Zarahemla](https://www.lds.org/bc/content/shared/content/images/gospel-library/magazine/friendlp.nfo:o:22b0.jpg)
Five thousand four hundred Nephite men, their wives, and their children left the land of Zarahemla and traveled north. Alma 63:4
![Hagoth](https://www.lds.org/bc/content/shared/content/images/gospel-library/magazine/friendlp.nfo:o:22b2.jpg)
One of them, named Hagoth, built a large ship and launched it into the west sea. Alma 63:5
![Nephites sailed northward](https://www.lds.org/bc/content/shared/content/images/gospel-library/magazine/friendlp.nfo:o:22b4.jpg)
Many Nephites took food and supplies and sailed northward in his ship. Alma 63:6
![Hagoth built other ships](https://www.lds.org/bc/content/shared/content/images/gospel-library/magazine/friendlp.nfo:o:22b6.jpg)
Hagoth built other ships that carried people to the land northward. His first ship returned and took more people northward. Alma 63:7
![None returned](https://www.lds.org/bc/content/shared/content/images/gospel-library/magazine/friendlp.nfo:o:22b8.jpg)
One other ship set sail; none of the ships returned. The Nephites did not know what happened to them. Alma 63:8
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