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`` Let your throne be placed upon the shore of the sea , '' pursued the old man . What he desired was executed . And when Dakianos was placed there , `` Prince , '' said the genie to him , `` there is at the bottom of the sea a fish , the bigness of which is known only to Allah , and which every day comes to land . It remains there till noon to adore the Almighty . No person interrupts its prayers : when they are finished , it plunges again to the bottom of the sea . '' The fish appeared as usual , and the genie said to Dakianos , `` Though the fish will not believe your power , it has , however , declared to all the fishes of the sea that you are the god of the earth . It fears nothing , and comes now to inform itself .