Australian-born foreign correspondent George Ernest Morrison (1862-1920) was renowned for his dispatches from Peking, published in the Times, and for his unique influence on the course of Chinese diplomacy. When Morrison first arrived in China in 1894, he set out on what he described as 'a quiet journey across China to Burma'. Dressed as a Chinese and engaging guides and servants as needed, he travelled by riverboat, sedan chair, mule, pony, and mostly on foot.