Can someone provide the source of the following material?:
"On the eight of November, 1519, Hernando Cortes and four hundred
Spanish soldiers...approached the Aztec Byzantium-Tenochtitlan, Mexico
City." The city was scattered with "great aviaries where thousands of birds
- white egrets, energetic wrens and thrushes, fierce accipiters,
brilliantly colored parrots - were housed and tended. They were
captivating, as fabulous, as the displays of flowers: vermilion
flycatchers, coppertailed trogons, green jays, blue-throated hummingbirds,
and summer tanagers. Great blue herons, brooding condors."
Three months later, because of "Cortes's psychological manipulation
of Montezuma and a concomitant arrogance, greed, and disrespect on the part
of the Spanish military force had become too much for the Mexicans, and
they drove them out."
Eleven months later a vengeful Cortes returned to lay siege to the
city. "On June 16 [1521] in a move calculated to humiliate and frighten the
Mexican people, Cortes set fire to the aviaries."
Nvwhtohiyada...Jordan
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not a voice or stir
darkness lies on fields and streets
sad the moon has set