cush

The posterity of Cush, he tells us, were addicted to the contemplation of the stars, and worshipped the sun as a god.

I had eaten almost everything from "cush" and "slapjacks" to raw corn and uncooked bacon.

Nilo gave himself to study of the drum, reminded, doubtless, of similar warlike devices in Kash-Cush.

These wonderful achievements were of the children of Cush, the ancestor of the Negroes.

The words "Ethiopia" and "Cush" were used always to describe a black people, or the country where such a people lived.