Bayan kama shi, Java ya kasance karkashin mulkin Birtaniya daga 1811 zuwa 1816. Gwamnan da aka nada shi ne Lieutenant Governor-General Thomas Stamford Raffles, wanda ya dauki babban sha'awa a tarihin Java. Ya tattara kayan tarihi na Java kuma ya yi bayanin kula ta hanyar hulɗa da mazauna gida a lokacin da yake tafiya a ko'ina cikin tsibirin. A kan wani rangadin da ya ziyarci Semarang a 1814, an sanar da shi game da wani babban abin tunawa a cikin wani daji kusa da ƙauyen Bumisegoro. Bai iya ganin shafin ba, amma ya aika da Hermann Cornelius, injiniyan Holland wanda, a tsakanin sauran binciken tsohuwar tarihi ya gano Sewu a 1806-07, don bincika. Tambaya: Menene wasu abubuwan da Thomas yake so?
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