ned. And he was accompanied by Marqos the Frank who brought a letter from the Franks who wrote to him urging him to put their camp under his protection so that they would be saved by his protection from the wrath of the unbelievers.” The author always needs to help his protagonist king, in the historiography. He represented the king savior of the Portuguese armies from the hand of the Muslims, which indeed the king himself reported some years after the victory of Wäyna Däga in 1550 in the long letter, to the Portuguese king why he failed to join them as fast as possible, the death of the valiant leader of the Portuguese army.
The most puzzling part of the story is that the Chronicle missed the Portuguese role in one of the decisive battles took place in 1543 against the Muslims that culminated Ahmad rule.  The Chronicle does not pay attention to the military success of the Portuguese armies in the final confrontation with Aḥmad. He did not give the size of Portuguese armies who involved in the battle on the side of the Christian monarch. He refrains even from mentioning directly their presence but rather he referred only at one point that one of the Portuguese soldiers killed a Muslim captive without the good wish of the king which clearly provides a clue as of the chronicler still needed to present the mercy of his king and the hostility of the Portuguese army. The text reads “But one of them, whose wickedness had been lifted up to clouds, was killed deceitfully by one of the soldiers of Portugal without the permission for this, the permission of our King Mar Gälawdewos, peace be upon him”. Apart from this, nothing said what the Portuguese deeds in such decisive battlefield in this chronicle. However, the story of the tremendous Portuguese deeds in this battle is well narrated in both Ethiopia and Portuguese contemporary sources.
On the Portuguese side, the account of Castanhoso and Bermudez pointed out that there were about 120 Portuguese armies who engaged in the final confrontation with Aḥmad and who remained of those who died in the first confrontation against Aḥmad. On the Ethiopian side, the main protagonist of the Chronicle, King Gälawdewos, reported the situation even better and very precisely in the letter he sent to the Portuguese king Dom João III, dated at the beginning of 1550, seven years after the victory of the decisive battle against the forces of Ahmad. It stated that “…Through your prayers God worked us great good; with the help of your men we Conquered the Moors, have always been victories over them.” The king message about the role of the Portuguese seems very significant and they became victories together with the king even in the later battles he conducted after the death of the Muslim leader Aḥmad. In the same letter the King also continued to narrate how the Portugal army became victorious against his Muslim contenders without even mentioning the role of his local armies “Cristovão da Gama with four hundred Franks could not destroy the moors; the fortunate Ayres Dias, his servant with one hundred and thirty Franks defeated and destroyed them entirely although Cristovão da Gama fought very valiantly”. The letter of the king is beyond doubt is more reliable than any of the sources that reveals the role they played have been so considerable even compared to the local armies. In the same way, the eye-witness account of Castanhoso further confirmed the fact stating that “in that country, fifty Portuguese are a greater reinforcement than one thousand natives”. Indeed, the Portuguese soldiers with the gun machine were more effective than the local armies of King Gälawdewos thus the considerable role they played was beyond doubt. On the contrary, however, in the same Chapter 19 the chronicler does not give much attention to the role of the Portuguese in the final confrontation together with the king against Aḥmad’s forces since he claims that Aḥmad was killed by one of Gälawdewos’s closer soldiers in early 1543. It reads ወሞተ፡ ኢማም፡ አሕመድ፡ በእደ፡ አሐዱ፡ እምአግብርቲሁ። (‘Imām Aḥmad was killed by the hand of one of h