ary confrontation with Aḥmad b. Ibrāhīm al-Ġāzī. Indeed, if one would consider what the Portuguese armies have done in those turbulent years, it would be justifiable if the chronicler dedicates at least a few chapters about them. But a very little information even in some cases inaccurate has been recorded in the chronicle. In general, the Chronicle provides intermittently very little information about the coming of the Portuguese army, why they were defeated in the first confrontation between the Muslims, the unnecessary act of the Portuguese army who killed a Muslim without the good will of the king, the coming of the Portuguese envoys. In all these narratives, the readers would clearly understand that the chronicler deliberately undermines the role of the Portuguese whose history is indeed well documented in the work of Castanhoso, chronicler of the Portuguese expedition. Let us examine such facts in the chronicle point by the point.
Even though the two sources are concerned about their own subject of discussion, the chronicler of Gälawdewos denies many basic facts concerning the Portuguese. The chronicler tends to glorify the protagonist, King Gälawdewos, and in some cases in the battles when the Portuguese were confronted with Aḥmad in the absence of Gälawdewos, he ascribes the final victory to the king. This is clear in Chapter 12 where the chronicler narrates the king’s bravery stating that the Portuguese involved in the struggle with unfaithful people, but the final victory was given to Gälawdewos. This chapter basically deals with the first military confrontation between the Portuguese soldiers and the forces of Aḥmad at the time when Gälawdewos was in Šäwa. From then, the king moved to Tǝgray to meet them after their victory. In this passage, the chronicler obviously makes a statement incompatible with the fact. The whole text reads like this
“In the second year of the reign of Mar Gälawdewos the church of Tǝgray won again a partial victory over the Muslim tribes from around Aräfta because the final victory was not given but to Mar Gälawdewos, peace upon him. At that time, he was not in Tǝgray; rather he was in the land we just mentioned. For this reason, the Church could not obtain a complete victory as we said at the beginning of this chapter, because Jesus Christ placed him, under himself, head of the Church: a head, thanks to which all his members are strong.  The reason for such a victory of the Church at that time (was) that in this year children of Tubal (Tobel), son of Japheth (Yafet), strong and brave men, who were thirsty for combat like wolves and hungry for killing like a lion, came up from the sea. These helped the aforementioned church in the war (against) the Muslims and they began defeating them. But even if they thought to come to the complete victory, that was not accorded to them, Imām Aḥmäd fought them and killed most of them and casted down their elite troops.  He killed their leader whose heart was brave and strong, like brass and iron, by a killing unworthy of him, having he captured and chained him, which is a treatment for the weak and powerless. All this happened to them since in that time they did not fight by the order of Mar Gälawdewos for whom victory and power was given and who had the right to open the sealed book of the future and to unmake its seal to be called victorious” 
Similarly, the chronicler misrepresented the story in Chapter 15 where he represented the Portuguese armies that they need the support of King Gälawdewos who is contrary to the Portuguese sources and to the King’s letter. When the Portuguese arrived, King Gälawdewos was in the south of the Kingdom in Šäwa fighting the governors of Ahmad and sent their envoy Marqos to tell him of their arrival to the King and join them as soon as possible to fight the forces of Ahmad. On the contrary, however, the Chronicle wrote that they sent Marqos in need of the king’s support and save them from Muslim annihilation. It reads “King Mar Gälawdewos set off on his way towards Tǝgray where Imām Aḥmäd and his entire army statio