Is it necessary to exhibit such spectacles to a mighty potentate, with interludes of talapoins* more mangy than dogs?

In Pegu, there are many priests or talapoins, as they are called, who preach against all abuses, and many people resort to hear them.

We cannot think without affright of those lands where fakirs, bonzes, santons, Greek monks, marabouts, talapoins, and dervishes multiply even like swarms of vermin.