Crossword-Solution: KENCH 5 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 14

There is a large hospital {115b} arranged by a European doctor, with a medical school attached, and it, the _Kenchô_, the _Saibanchô_, or Court House, the schools, the barracks, and a large bank, which is rivalling them all, have a go-ahead, Europeanised look, bold, staring, and tasteless.

Yamagata, a thriving town of 21,000 people and the capital of the _ken_, is well situated on a slight eminence, and this and the dominant position of the _kenchô_ at the top of the main street give it an emphasis unusual in Japanese towns.

The Government Buildings, though in the usual confectionery style, are improved by the addition of verandahs; and the _Kenchô_, _Saibanchô_, or Court House, the Normal School with advanced schools attached, and the police buildings, are all in keeping with the good road and obvious prosperity.

The usage was continued of "taking," in the words of Kench, "negroes in our service, intermixed with the white men." The negroes of Boston and their abolition friends, rather insisted upon the intermingling of the races in the army, believing that this course had a greater tendency to destroy slavery, and the inequality of rights among the blacks and whites; though it deprived the negroes, as we now see, of receiving due credit for their valor, save in a few individual cases.

After this, one of the crew carried the skin below, and laid it, hair side down, in a “kench,” or bin constructed for the purpose.