Ka cika wannan furcin: Ma'aikatan jirgin ruwa na Britaniya a ƙarni na 18 da 19 sun san shi da sunan Caramata Passage. An yi amfani da mashigar a matsayin hanyar jirgin ruwa na Burtaniya don
mamayewa na Java (1811), yana tafiya daga sansanin Birtaniya a Malacca zuwa tsibirin Java, sa'an nan kuma wani ɓangare na Dutch East Indies. Da farko, 'yan Burtaniya ba su da tabbaci game da amfani da mashigar, kuma sun yi jinkiri tsakanin ɗaukar ta ko kuma hanyar arewa maso gabas kusa da arewacin Borneo da kuma ta hanyar Makassar Strait. Wani rahoto da Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, wanda a lokacin ma'aikacin Birtaniya ne a Malacca, ya bayar ya ce a bi hanyar Karimata, wadda ya ce "ta fi sauƙi a bi ta fiye da hanyar arewa maso gabas a wannan lokacin shekara". Raffles ya kimanta cewa wannan tafiyar za ta ɗauki rundunar sojojin Burtaniya tsakanin wata ɗaya da makonni shida don "rundunar jiragen ruwa da ke tafiya a cikin ƙungiyoyi". Babban Gwamnan Birtaniya na Indiya Ubangiji Minto ya yanke shawarar ɗaukar shawarar Raffles akan ƙin yarda da wasu jami'an sojan ruwa. Jirgin ruwan, wanda ya kai kimanin jiragen ruwa 100 da kuma jigilar sojoji 11,000, ya bar Malacca tsakanin 11 zuwa 18 ga Yuni 1811, kuma ya isa gabar tekun Java a ranar 30 ga Yuli bayan tafiya mai sauƙi, daidai makonni shida bayan tashiwar Minto da Raffles.