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Ka Buke a MoramonaHawaiian Book of Mormon |
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Elder George Q. Cannon, a missionary called from Utah to help open the Sandwich Islands Mission (modern day Hawaii) in 1850, and Judge Ionatana Napela, a Native Hawaiian alii (chief) and early convert to the Church from Maui, translated the Book of Mormon into Hawaiian during the several years Elder Cannon was serving there. Elder Cannon and his wife were called to San Francisco in 1855 where he printed 3,000 copies of the Hawaiian Book of Mormon, but only 200 were bound. Almost all of the copies were shipped back to Hawaii where most of them were destroyed in a fire in 1868; only about 15-30 copies of the original 1855 edition are believed to be extant. Several subsequent editions were printed about 50 years later, which are more common.
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