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In order to help Marx with the new publishing effort in London, Neue Rheinsche Zeitung Politisch-ökonomische Revue, Engels sought ways to escape the continent and travel to London.

On October 5, 1849, Engels arrived in the Italian port city of Genoa.

There, Engels booked passage on the English schooner, Cornish Diamond under the command of a Captain Stevens.

The voyage across the western Mediterranean, around the Iberian Peninsula by sailing schooner took about five weeks.

Finally, on November 10, 1849 the Cornish Diamond sailed up the River Thames to London with Engels on board.