Mount Etna otherworldly associations of the great, volcanic mountain of their new home. Mediaevalist Roger Sherman Loomis quotes passages from the works of Gervase of Tilbury and Caesarius of Heisterbach (dating from the late twelfth century) featuring accounts of Arthur's returning of a lost horse which had strayed into his subterranean kingdom beneath Etna. Caesarius quotes as his authority for the story a certain canon Godescalcus of Bonn, who considered it a matter of historic fact of the time of Emperor Henry's conquest of Sicily "circa" 1194. Caesarius employs in his account the Latin phrase "in monte Gyber" ("within Etna") to describe
Etna (sternwheeler) of "Etna" was substantially affected by the rise and fall of river levels, which were generally seasonal. Small craft like "Etna" on the Columbia River system were sometimes referred to at the time as the "mosquito fleet" "Etna" was built in Portland, Oregon in 1906 for Horace Campbell by the Portland shipyard of Joseph Supple. Campbell was a steamboat engineer with extensive experience on the Lewis and Lake rivers. "Etna" was exclusive of the extension of the deck over the stern, called the fantail, on which the stern-wheel was mounted. "Etna" had a beam of exclusive of the protective timbers