Seram is a vast island about the size of the big island of Hawaii but much more spread out, with many wonderful inlets and bays.
Bickmore wrote about Amahai in English.
Patisahusiwa recorded tales of ancient shipwrecks and family origins. He also copied down what is probably the longest genealogy of Maluku, stretching back 29 generations from the 1930s into what seems to be a Polynesian past.
Oom Manu Souisa also taught me a few things about Seram.
Everybody in Maluku seems to have some story or other to tell about Seram, and many of these are about the mythical Nunusaku . Jim Collins borrowed this name to label an ancient language of the region, which he called "Proto-Nunusaku."
From the village of Tihulale, I have some information about a pela and a word list for the ancient language.