Saltire detected the symbol, which often appears with balls in the quadrants formed by the arms of the chi-cross, in standards that appear on the coins of Persepolis. She suggested that early Christians endorsed its solar symbolism as appropriate to Christ. She also wrote: "although it cannot be proved, ... in the white saltire of St. Andrew we still have a reminiscence of the old standard of the Persepolitan kingdom". In the old European Union standard, a black saltire set in an orange square is the hazard symbol for irritants (Xi) or harmful chemicals (Xn). It indicates a hazard less severe
The Yellow Chief: A Romance of the Rocky Mountains in the south, an Indian fighter, and an officer in the Mexican War gave him the authority to write these stories, and also lent him the conventional biases of white American society. "The Yellow Chief" holds harmful descriptions of African Americans and American Indians as savages and animalistic. When describing a slave boy running away on all fours from the grip of the Yellow Chief, Mayne Reid emulates ideas of Darwin and the devolution of humans. Often referring to the Cheyennes as "skunks", Mayne Reid characterizes the Yellow Chief's gang as frequent drunks, making them easily manipulated to the fur