“Hagoth,” Liahona, Aug. 1995, 16
Hagoth
![Some Nephites travel north](https://www.lds.org/bc/content/shared/content/images/gospel-library/magazine/liahonlp.nfo:o:1a5f.jpg)
Five thousand four hundred Nephite men, their wives, and their children left the land of Zarahemla and traveled north. Alma 63:4
![Hagoth builds a ship](https://www.lds.org/bc/content/shared/content/images/gospel-library/magazine/liahonlp.nfo:o:1a61.jpg)
One of them, named Hagoth, built a large ship and launched it into the west sea. Alma 63:5
![Nephites took food in his ship](https://www.lds.org/bc/content/shared/content/images/gospel-library/magazine/liahonlp.nfo:o:1a63.jpg)
Many Nephites took food and supplies and sailed northward in his ship. Alma 63:6
![Other ships go northward](https://www.lds.org/bc/content/shared/content/images/gospel-library/magazine/liahonlp.nfo:o:1a65.jpg)
Hagoth built other ships that carried people to the land northward. His first ship returned and took more people northward. Alma 63:7
![Ships didn’t return](https://www.lds.org/bc/content/shared/content/images/gospel-library/magazine/liahonlp.nfo:o:1a67.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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