Nyorai kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Yakanga ichizivikanwa navafambisi vengarava veBritain muzana ramakore rechi 18 nerechi 19 seCaramata Passage. Nzira iyi yakashandiswa nezvikepe zveBritain pakurwisa Java muna 1811
, ichifamba nengarava kubva pachiteshi cheBritain muMalacca ichienda kuchitsuwa cheJava, chaiva chikamu cheDutch East Indies. Pakutanga, vaBritain vakanga vasina chokwadi nekubudirira kwechiteshi ichi, uye vakakahadzika pakati pekutora kana kuchamhembe kwakadziva kumabvazuva kwakatenderedza kuchamhembe kweBorneo uye kuburikidza neMakassar Strait. Mushumo wakanyorwa naSir Thomas Stamford Raffles, uyo panguva iyoyo aiva mukuru mukuru weBritain muMalacca, wakakurudzira kufamba nomugwagwa weKarimata, waaifunga kuti "waisava nengozi uye wainetesa" kupfuura wokuchamhembe kwakadziva kumabvazuva panguva iyoyo yegore. Raffles akafungidzira kuti rwendo urwu rwaizotora ngarava dzeBritain pakati pemwedzi nemasvondo matanhatu nokuti "ngarava dzacho dzaifamba dziri mumapoka". Gavhuna Mukuru weBritain weIndia Ishe Minto akasarudza kutora chikarakadzo chaRaffles pamusoro pokuramba kwavamwe vakuru vehondo. Zvikepe zvacho, zvaiva nengarava dzinosvika 100 uye zvaitakura mauto anosvika 11 000, zvakabva kuMalacca pakati pa11 na18 June 1811, ndokusvika pamhenderekedzo yeJava musi wa30 July pashure porwendo rwakanaka, vhiki nhanhatu chaidzo pashure pokubva kwaMinto naRaffles.