On the East-Indian Description by Jan Huyghen of Haarlem.

ODE.

The heart-stealing Goddess Cypris, or Venus, the goddess of love, here portrayed as a patron of the Dutch explorers.
To the Batavian race The "Batavians" were the ancestral Germanic tribe of the Netherlands; the term was used poetically to refer to the Dutch people.,
To show favor and love
And so that she might win thereby
The winged thought:
Has brought forth her shell;
In which she can sail
Upon the azure waves,
By day and by night.

Therein she quickly places
Huyghen, endowed with skill:
Unfurling her little golden sails
To go upon the great waves
Of the wild Ocean,
On the untrodden path;
Toward the East-Indian lands,
And to make him behold the curved shores
(Full of treasure).

Tethys A Greek sea goddess and wife of Oceanus. and her companions
Surround them with play:
The Sirens who sing
With sweet-sounding throats:
The scaly folk Refers to fish or mythical mermen. reveal their joy;
Triton The messenger of the sea, often depicted blowing a conch shell. comes to meet them
Sticking his head out,
And closing in a ring around them,
The sweet Arion-bearers Dolphins. In myth, the poet Arion was rescued from the sea by dolphins attracted to his music..

Just as it happens to those
Who from the high mountains
See in a very clear valley,
Images great and small
With a contemplative eye;
Here a display is made
Of streams, fountains, rivers,
Hills, caves, and ponds,
Where one shoots with the bow.

On the other side appear
Noble villages and cities;
The tasty wines
Which make the heart’s sorrow vanish,
Clothe many of the hills;
Here the little golden-yellow apples Likely referring to citrus fruits or other exotic produce seen as "golden apples" by Europeans.,
There stand woods and hedges,
Here one sees the hunters' snares
Entrapping the animals' throats.

So Cypris goes to show him
What good favor [exists among]

Those who live under the sunrise The inhabitants of the East.:
And the people who, for adornment,
Sprinkle their heads with perfumes;
How the cities are situated,
How the Moluccan lands
Are seen to be full of cinnamon,
Sprinkled with cloves.

Goa, great and full of riches,
He sees elegantly built.
The unusually thick trees,
And the pearl-rich streams,
Are beheld by him.
The incorruptible gold
He sees found by the water:
Animals that devour people
And bold elephants.

Banda full of nutmegs,
And the gold-rich Bisnagaer The Vijayanagara Empire in Southern India, known to the Portuguese and Dutch as Bisnaga.,
Calicut almost abandoned,
Ceylon whose inhabitants
Fish for clear pearls,
Sumatra very fertile,
And through all the other regions
He finally lets us clearly view
The animals, herbs, and heavy treasures.

Will you now then steadily praise
Huyghen as one much beloved
By Cypris, who has pushed
Him through Neptune’s courts
With a prosperous wind:
Therefore he now makes known
To everyone—not with painterly fictions—
That which his discerning eyes
Encountered upon his arrival.

All of which is wrought
In this skill-rich book
Skillfully written by him.
O young man, elevated
Among the wise minds,
In every side and corner
Your praise must endure eternally;
Envy’s very evil whims
Shall make no claim on you.