Tristan Hughes
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But it's, you know, after suffering an awful lot, after losing quite a lot of people.
But there's also the Nearchus.
They've given him up for dead.
They think the fleet's been lost.
Oh, they think the fleet's gone.
So he appears and they don't believe who he is at first.
Because by this time, the army's recovered.
So it's the other way around where he's gone and it's just they've not heard anything.
They don't really have that much sense of how far it is.
And they just think they've gone.
And there have been problems.
It's been a difficult journey.
But through that, they've learned.
They've then, from then on, know there is a sense of, okay, this is India.
How does it connect to the heartland of the Persian Empire?
So they have learned things.
I mean, there is some positive, I suppose, from this, but it's all been expensive, sort of overly costly.