in 1904, Ruth Bell was a passenger on the barquentine "Allen", sailing from Honolulu to San Francisco. She asked the captain to kill a "gooney bird" for her, which he did. The bird was skinned, and Bell saved the feathers and wings "for millinery purposes". When the "Allen" was subsequently caught in bad weather lasting several days (during which one crew member died), the crew insisted on confiscating the bird's remains from Bell and throwing them overboard.