Career
He served as the philologist for the United States Exploring Expedition (1838–1842), which was led by Lieutenant Charles Wilkes. The Hale Passages of Puget Sound were named in recognition of his service to the expedition. The expedition went on to Polynesia. Of the reports of that expedition, Hale prepared the sixth volume, Ethnography and Philology (1846), which is said to have laid the foundations of the ethnography of Polynesia. He continued to travel and study abroad.
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