154 LEEUWENHOEK AND HIS “ LITTLE ANIMALS ”’ 
some very little animalcules, a bit longer and bigger than 
the small animalcules seen by me in the pepper-water. 
Nevertheless, these had a different form and motion; 
for while the animalcules in the pepper-water went 
forward all winding-wise, these animalcules all advanced 
in jumps, hopping like a magpie: yet were they very 
few in number.’ 
The 30th of May, observing the ginger-water anew, I 
discovered at least 25 times more animalcules therein 
than previously. Among them were some quite three 
times as long as broad, and I fancied I saw that their 
fore and hind ends were fashioned aslant:; that is, with 
an acute angle and an obtuse angle, as I have said before” 
of a like sort that were bigger. Ditto, about 10 o’clock 
at night, the said animalcules seen in greater number. 
The 31st ditto, the foresaid animalcules seen in still 
much greater number, amounting to several thousand in 
one drop of water: and some of them exceeded the others 
in length. 
The Ist of June, the animalcules seen in still greater 
number. 
The 3rd ditto, the animalcules seen in such a vast 
number (in the water that I took from above, off the 
surface of the water), that were I to declare, according to 
my own judgement, how many thousands there were in 
one drop of water, ’twould not be believable. 
The 4th of June, the water was again so evaporated 
away, that the bits of ginger began to lie dry; so I poured 
on rain-water at this time. 
The 10th ditto, upon the water lay a thick film, which 
I took off: and I then saw some oval animalcules,* in size 
and shape like those that I have said were in the pepper- 
water. 
" From the description of its jumping movements, this was probably a 
Cyclidium—noted earlier. 
” See p. 132, 1st observation on pepper-water. ? Bodo sp. 
* Ciliates, but otherwise unidentifiable. 
