rice-chaff

“On the top, lying in a groove, is a tiny rounded bag of calico filled with rice-chaff, about the size of a sausage.”

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 29, August, 1873

“The same sampan is re-engaged to convey us farther down stream; beneath the housing of bamboo-mats, the rice-chaff leaves barely room for us to crowd in and huddle together from the rain and cold prevailing outside.”

Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama