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) bore and stroke of . In December 1912, Etna Transportation Company, owners of "Etna", bought an electric generator to install on the steamer. Electric lights were made necessary because of the increased level of traffic on the river required the steamer to operate during darkness, particularly in the winter when the days were shorter. Horace Campbell planned to use "Etna" on the Lewis River route in conjunction with the sternwheeler "Mascot". Logging camps and mills up the Lewis river depended on shallow-draft steamers like "Etna" to bring in supplies. "Etna" also carried passengers. In June 1910, when low water barred