when the feast was over the princes asked the bridegroom if he would like to walk through the palace and see all there was to be seen. then the happy fisherman, following his bride, the sea king's daughter, was shown all the wonders of that enchanted land where youth and joy go hand in hand and neither time nor age can touch them. the palace was built of coral and adorned with pearls, and the beauties and wonders of the place were so great that the tongue fails to describe them.