Den ................ quamen opde rheede van batavia ten ancker, den goeden godt
The ................ came in-the roadstead of Batavia to anchor, the good god

sij gedanckt dat ons soo genadelijck uijt de handen der heijdenen heeft
give thanks that us so graceful out [of] the hands of-the heathens has

verlost, daer over de 14: jaren met groote commer ende droefheijt onder
released, there about the 14 years with great distress and-the sadness under

hebben gesworven, en nu weder bij onse overight heeft gebrocht
have wandered, and now again with our others have brought

om 't voorseijde rijck van Coree aan te doen, moet 't selve soecken aende west
in-order-to the before-said realm of Coree [aan te doen =] call (in) at, has th' same searching to-the west

Zijde, ofte inde bocht van nanckin op de hoogte van omtrent 40 graden
side, or in-the bight of nanckin on the height [= latitude] of around 40 degrees

alwaer een groote rivier in Zee comt loopen, welcke Rivier op 1/2 mijl
where a big river in sea comes running, which river on 1/2 mijl

voorbij van de stadt sior loopt, alwaer als des Co:s rijs, ende andere
beyond of the city sior runs, where as the king rice, and-the other

Incomsten met groote Ioncken gebracht wort, de packhuijsen leggende
income with big junks brought is, the warehouses lay

omtrent 8 mijlen de rivier op, ende dan met carren inde stadt gebrocht
around 8 mijl the river on, and-the then with carts in-the city brought

wort, Inde stadt sior hout des Co: sijn hof, hier onthouden haer den
is, in-the city sior keeps the king his court, here stay her the

meesten adel ende grootsten Coopluijden van 't land, die op China ende
most nobility and-the greatest [= prominent] merchants of th' country, who on china and-the

met d' Jappanders handelen, alsoo alle Coopmanszaken hier eerst
with th' Jappanders trade, thus all merchant-business here first

gebracht, ende dan door 't land gesleten wort, hier wort ooc veel
brought, and-the then through th' country sold is, here is also much

handel met silver gedreven, door dien meest onder de grooten Is
trade with silver run, [door dien = ] because most under the great is

berustende, daer mede andere steden, ende ten platte lande met
rest-with <be deposited with>, there also in other cities, and-the at-the flat country [= countryside] with

linde ende granen gedaen wort, datmen het land ende west sijde
lime <= cotton> and grain done is, that-one the country and-the west side

soude aendoen, Is omdat aende zuijt (sijde)(scratched out) ende oost sijde, veel
should call-in, is because on-the south (side) and-the east side, many

clippen en riffen soo sighbare als blinde leggen, voortnamentlijck in ende
cliffs and reefs as-well-as visible as blind [invisible] lay, mainly <chiefly, principally> in and-the

voor de baijen, daer naer t' seggen vande Coreese stuijrluijden de
before the bays, there according th' saying by-the Coreese coxswains the

westsijde, 't schoonste van Is
west-side, th' most-beautiful of is
 

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