Signs In Nile’s Floating Chaff

There is an old rabbinical legend, and it runs thus: “When Joseph was Prime Minister to Pharaoh, during the period of the famine, he emptied the chaff of his granaries into the river Nile. It floated far away on the moving current, and the people on the banks at a great distance below saw it. It was only chaff, but it meant that there was corn in plenty elsewhere.”

When they saw the floating chaff they were sure that if their strength held out, and that if they could only reach the point at which the chaff had been thrown into the river they would find plenty to nourish their life.
~ Current Anecdotes