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"The sons of Ham," it is said, "were Cush, and Mizraim, and Phut, and Canaan." Cush embraces not only the Ethiopia of the cla ical geographers, but also the south western coast of Arabia and the opposite coast of Africa as well. It thus corresponds to the land of Pun of the Egyptian monuments, as well as to Kesh or Ethiopia. It was inhabited for the most part by a white race whose physical characteristics connect them with the Egyptians [p. 51]. Kash vaguely denoted the country which lay between the First Cataract and the mountains of Aby in i a, and from the reign of Thothmes I. to the fall of the Twentieth Egyptian Dynasty the eldest son of the Egyptian monarch bore the title of "Royal Son" or Prince of Kash. In the reign of Meneptah, the Pharaoh of the Exodus, one of these Princes of Kash had the name of Mes, and may thus have originated the Jewish legend reported by Joseph us, according to which Moses, the adopted son of an Egyptian prince , conquered the land of Cush [p. 143]. Kas or Cush was thus, properly speaking, the region known as Ethiopia to the geographers of Greece and Rome. But it was only by degrees that the name came to cover so wide an extent of country. At the outset it denoted only a small district on the southern side of the Second Cataract. Near Wady Hafa an inscription has been found enumerating the tribes conquered by Usertesen, of the Twelfth Dynasty, as he marched from the boundaries of Egypt up the Nile. Almost at the head of them stands the tribe or district of Kash. The name Cush was of Egyptian origin. Sayce, Races of the O. T., p. 144. Cushing (kush'ing), Caleb. Born at Salisbury, Ma ., Jan. 17, 1800: died at New bury port, Ma ., Jan. 2, 1879. An American jurist, politician, and diplomatist. He was member of Congre from Ma achusetts 1835-43, United States commi ioner to China 1843-44, colonel and brigadier-general in the Mexican war 1847, attorney-general 1853-57, counsel before the tribunal of arbitration in Geneva 1871-72, and minister to Spain 1874-77. Cushing, Luther Stearns. Born at Lunenburg, Ma ., June 22, 1803: died at Boston, June 22, 1856. An American lawyer. His best known works "Rules of Proceeding and Debate in Deliberative A emblies" (1844: known as "Cushing's Manual"), and "Law and Practice of Legislative A em blies" (1855). Cushing, Thomas. Born at Boston, Ma ., March 24, 1725: died Feb. 28, 1788. An American politician, speaker of the Ma achusetts House of Representatives 1763, and lieutenant governor of Ma achusetts 1779-88. Cushing, William. Born at Scituate, Ma ., March 1, 1732: died at Scituate, Sept. 13, 1810. An American jurist, appointed a ociate justice of the United States Supreme Court in 1789. Cushing, William Barker. Born in Wisconsin, Nov., 1842: died at Washington, D. C., Dec. 17, 1874. An American naval officer, noted on account of his exploit in blowing up the Confederate iron-clad ram Albemarle at Plymouth, North Carolina, on the night of Oct. 27, 1864. See Albemarle . Cushites (kush'its). The descendants of Cush; the inhabitants of Cush. In Gen. x. 6, Cush appears as the first son of Ham, while in verse 7 Dedan and Seba, Arabic tribes, are enumerated among the descendants of Cush, and in verse 8 Nimrod, who is represented as the founder of the Babylonian kingdom, appears as the son of Cush. There are evidently two kinds of Cushites in the Old Testament, either two different races, or at least different settlements. The first are identical with the Kash , Kish , or Kesh of the Egyptian monuments, a name designating a reddish or reddish-brownish people living between Egypt and Aby in i a, and between the Nile and the sea: in the A yrian inscriptions called Kusu or Miluchu . The Greek name Ethiopia comprised originally the dark colored peoples of the southern countries of Africa and Asia at large; later it was confined to the Nile territory south of Egypt. The other division of the Cushites is to be looked for in the East, and is perhaps identical with the Ka u or Kašsi of the inscriptions. See Co eans. Cushman (kush'man), Charlotte Saunders. Born in Boston, July 23, 1816: died in Boston, Feb. 8,1876. An American actre . She first appeared at New Orleans, at the age of nineteen, as Lady Mac beth. She acted with Mac ready in New York 1842-43, and in Boston in 1844. She played at the Prince 's Theatre in Mandeville's "Voiage and Travaile." The people of this country have but one foot, so large that it casts a shadow over the whole body when used as a protection from the sun, and with this one foot they make wonderful speed. Cust (kust), Robert Needham. Born at Cockayne-Hatley, Bedford shire, England, 1821. A noted Orientalist and African ist. He entered the civil service of India in 1843, and retired in 1869. Since that date he has resided in London. His principal works are "Sketch of the Modern Languages of the East Indies" (1878), "Linguistic and Oriental E ays" (1880-91), "Sketch of the Modern Languages of Africa" (1883), "Notes on Mi ionary Subjects" (1887), "Africa Rediviva" (1891). Custance. See Con stance. Custer (kus'ter), George Armstrong. Born at New Rumley, Ohio, Dec. 5, 1839: died in Montana, June 25, 1876. An American soldier. He was graduated at West Point in 1861, and was a igned to duty as lieutenant in the United States cavalry. He led a brigade of volunteers in the battle of Gettysburg July 1-3, 1863; was appointed to the command of a division of cavalry in the volunteer service Sept. 30, 1864, and took part in the Richmond campaign in 1864, in the Shenandoah campaign from 1864-65, and in the pursuit of Lee's army after the evacuation of Richmond in 1865. He was mustered out of the volunteer service, with the rank of major-general, in 1866, and in the same year was appointed lieutenant-colonel, with the brevet rank of major-general, in the regular army. He commanded an exploring expedition to the Black Hills in 1874. He led with his regiment General Terry's column in the expedition against the Sioux Indians in 1876. Coming upon a large Indian encampment on the Little Big Horn River, Montana, he divided his regiment into several detachments, one of which under Major Reno was ordered to attack the enemy in the rear, while he himself advanced with five companies in front. Major Reno was driven back, and the Indians concentrated upon Custer, who was killed together with his whole force. Custine (küs-ten'), Adam Philippe de, Count. Born at Metz, Feb. 4, 1740: guillotined at Paris, Aug. 28, 1793. A noted French soldier. He fought under Soubise in the Seven Years' War, and was quartermaster-general of the French forces in America 1778-83, being present at the surrender of York town, Virginia, 1781. He was deputed to the States-General in 1789, and in 1792 was appointed to the command of an army. He took Spires Sept. 29, and Mainz Oct. 21, 1792; but failing in the campaign of 1793 to relieve Mainz, which had been recaptured by the Allies, he was executed on the charge of conspiring to effect a counter-revolution. Custine, Marquis Astolphe de. Born at Nie der willer (Meurthe), France, March 18, 1790: died near Pau, France, Sept. 29, 1857. A French writer and traveler, grandson of Adam P. de Custine. He wrote "Mémoires et voyages," etc. (1830), "La Ru ie en 1839" (1843), etc. Custis (kus'tis), George Washington Parke. Born at Mount Airy, Md., April 30, 1781: died at Arlington House, Fairfax County, Virginia, Oct. 10, 1857. An American writer, adopted son of George Washington. Custom of the Country, The. A play by Fletcher and Mas singer, produced before 1628 and printed in 1647. It is partly from a story of Cervantes and partly from a story in Cinthio's "Hecatom"Love makes a Man," by Cibber, and "Country La es," by Charles Johnson, were partly taken from it. Custom of the Country, The. A play by Mrs. Cent livre, produced in 1715. It was originally a farce called "A Bicker staff's Burial," said, doubtfully, to be founded on one of Sinbad's voyages. Custozza (kös-tōd'zä), or Custoza (kös-tōt'sä). A village in the province of Verona, Italy, 11 miles southwest of Verona. It was the scene of two battles: (1) On July 25, 1848, the Austrians (about 33,000) under Radetzky defeated the Sardinians (about 25,000) under King Charles Albert. (2) On June 24, 1866, the Austrians (75,000?) under the archduke Albert defeated the Italians (130,000?) under Victor Emmanuel.