They were said to have first lived at Moanalua in Oahu, then to have moved their residence to Kalaupapa, molokai, then to Haleakala, and finally to have settled on Hawaii.
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For, if that world at all remember you, on the day when Damien of molokai shall be named a Saint, it will be in virtue of one work: your letter to the Reverend H. B. Gage.
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Damien was not sent to molokai, but went there without orders.
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Robert Louis Stevenson