HAMEG, the Arabic name of peoples of Dar Fung province, but little, if at all, Islamized and speaking non-Arabic languages. The province of Dar Fung, representing the southern part of the old kingdom of Sennar and having Abyssinia as its eastern neigh bour, is inhabited by Arabs in its northern portion, its southern area (including the hills between the Blue and White Niles from about the latitude of 12 ° southwards) being anthropologically almost unknown. _ Here are found a number of peoples who, generally called Hameg by the Arabs, commonly speak of them selves by the names of their respective hills. The province is an area of linguistic confusion, and just as the country may be regarded as an eastern extension of Dar Nuba so may its peoples be considered to be aboriginal hillmen, differing in few essentials from the Nuba (q.v.) though separated from them by the Nile. In this district Bruce first recorded the ceremonial killing of the local king, and customs pointing in this direction have been re corded from other peoples in the same area. Even at Jebel Guli, on about the same parallel as Roseires, the most Arabicized of all these hills, there is or was until a few years ago a well de veloped stone cult. These people traced their descent to the great queen Soba (no doubt a memory of such queens as that Candace who ruled in Gezira in the 3rd century B.C. and so appeared to dominate the north) and when a new "king" was installed he stood on a stone called Soba while his feet were ceremonially washed.